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Our Lips Are Sealed · Everclear

EXERCISE 23 OF 42
Fill at bar 42, 73 and 77 (a small one)
77 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART T
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBKRET+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Our Lips Are Sealed on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-22, ride through bars 23-25, snare through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-41 and snare through bars 42-45, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 8 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Our Lips Are Sealed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 22, 26, 30 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-24 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-31 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Our Lips Are Sealed?

139 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Our Lips Are Sealed hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Our Lips Are Sealed?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 22, 26, 30 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED