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EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBMS8JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ordinary Story on drums

142 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, ride through bars 37-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-40, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-15 and 47-63, and 1 more place -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 16, 32, 44, 64, 77 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-91 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 90-103 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ordinary Story?

160 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 Ordinary Story hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Ordinary Story?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 16, 32, 44, 64, 77 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED