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Opio · Héroes del Silencio

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 14 PASSED · 88 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBIS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Opio on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 5:05 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
34/100

snare through bars 2-98, silence through bars 99-114 and snare through bars 115-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-32 and 34-40, and 5 more places -- 77.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Opio -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 33, 41, 49, 65, 81 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 2-130 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Opio?

99 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Opio hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Opio?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 33, 41, 49, 65, 81 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED