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The Beginning · One Ok Rock

EXERCISE 7 OF 39
Fill at bar 34 (a small one)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJFS1DV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Beginning on drums

211 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-40, hi-hat through bars 41-57, snare through bars 58-90, hi-hat through bars 91-114 and snare through bars 115-161, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 45 and 47, and 9 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The Beginning -- 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 34, 42, 58, 90, 98, 146 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-161 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 158-200 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Beginning?

182 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 The Beginning hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 The Beginning?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 34, 42, 58, 90, 98, 146 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED