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Over The Mountain · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 28 OF 66
9-bar fill at bar 54
100 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART Y
PART AD
PART AF
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCYADAF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Over The Mountain on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-26, toms through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-54, toms through bars 55-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-100, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 10 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------|
Over The Mountain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 26, 27, 28 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-46 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-36 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Over The Mountain?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Over The Mountain hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Over The Mountain?

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 26, 27, 28 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED