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owesome · a picture of her

EXERCISE 25 OF 48
Groove R
45 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesLSAGS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play owesome on drums

87 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 2:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-55, hi-hat through bars 56-58 and ride through bars 59-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-14 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---o---|x-o-----------x-|
SD |------x-----x---|x-------xxxxx---|
BD |x---------xx----|--x---x---------|
HF |----------------|----x-----------|
owesome -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 17 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is owesome?

165 BPM, in 6/4, 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 owesome hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 owesome?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED