Sploosh! · Ozric Tentacles

149 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 41-44 and 57-60, and 6 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SPLOOSH! · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 52, 76, 120, 121, 122 and 4 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 120-122 · LANDS ON BAR 123 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 148 · LANDS ON BAR 149
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 23 sections: 92 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-119.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
VERSE 4
VERSE 6
VERSE 7
CHORUS 6
9 groovesCDS1ES19+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sploosh!?

100 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 Sploosh! hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sploosh!?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 52, 76, 120, 121, 122 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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