Snake Oil · Lovejoy

137 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 6 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
SNAKE OIL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 64, 88, 104 and 2 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 11 sections: 108 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-15.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFCAMS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Snake Oil?

158 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Snake Oil hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Snake Oil?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 64, 88, 104 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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