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Ossigeno · Afterhours

EXERCISE 7 OF 25
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
44 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ossigeno on drums

89 bars, 5:05, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 3-44, ride through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-68, ride through bars 69-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 37-39 and 41-43, and 7 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-------x---|----x----------x|
HH |--o---o-o-o---o-|o-o---o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x----x|x-x------xx-----|
Ossigeno -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ossigeno?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Ossigeno hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 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 Ossigeno?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED