Oxygen · Porch light

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 21-27 and 37-44 -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
OXYGEN · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16 and 28.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 8 sections: 35 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-56.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBFS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oxygen?

76 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 Oxygen hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Oxygen?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16 and 28.

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