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Osmosis · Good Kid

EXERCISE 28 OF 37
Run K2 · Part K (bars 84-97)
128 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
OUTRO
7 groovesCIKHU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Osmosis on drums

136 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 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
136
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-42, snare through bars 43-52, hi-hat through bars 53-84, snare through bars 85-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-92, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 23 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Osmosis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 25, 26, 52, 68 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- H, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-53 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-84 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Osmosis?

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 Osmosis hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Osmosis?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 25, 26, 52, 68 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED