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Oppressor · Jesus Piece

Oppressor · Jesus Piece
EXERCISE 26 OF 34
Groove O
79 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oppressor on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-3, toms through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9 and silence through bars 10-12, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Oppressor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-28 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-60 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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