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OSKR · Nemophila

EXERCISE 12 OF 92
Groove H
81 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
PART B
PART I
PART D
PART AA
PART B
OUTRO
14 groovesUBIDT+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 19
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play OSKR on drums

172 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-11, snare through bars 12-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-52, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-44, 83-85 and 87-89, and 5 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
OSKR -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 7, 14, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- U -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is OSKR?

185 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 OSKR hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 OSKR?

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 7, 14, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED