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Sploosh! · Ozric Tentacles

Sploosh! · Ozric Tentacles
EXERCISE 13 OF 47
Run G1 · Part G (bars 33-36)
102 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
VERSE
PART G
VERSE 4
VERSE 6
VERSE 7
CHORUS 6
9 groovesCDS1ES19+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sploosh! on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-101, silence through bars 102-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-149.

The beat

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.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x--x--x-|
Sploosh! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-84 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 43-49 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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