Oppressor · Jesus Piece

96 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 7 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
OPPRESSOR · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 43, 64, 68, 86 and 2 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-85.

PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART L
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGCHLM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oppressor?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Oppressor hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Oppressor?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 43, 64, 68, 86 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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