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Snake Oil · Lovejoy

EXERCISE 17 OF 46
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
80 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J, CHORUS 3
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snake Oil on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-80, snare through bars 81-96 and silence through bars 97-104, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Snake Oil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-97 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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