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Opus Pocus · Jason Becker

EXERCISE 16 OF 48
Groove P
70 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART S2
PART K
PART V
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAGRVKS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Opus Pocus on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-23, ride through bars 24-30, hi-hat through bars 31-37 and ride through bars 38-44, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-63, 66-72 and 74-79, and 1 more place -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    51
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |------------------------x-------|
RD |x-------x-------x---------------|
SD |------------------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-----------|
Opus Pocus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 16, 23, 31 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- AG, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-22 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 28-39 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-53 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part AR -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Opus Pocus?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Opus Pocus hard to play on drums?

63 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Opus Pocus?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 16, 23, 31 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED