The Ocean Breather · Assemble The Chariots

156 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 33-39, and 3 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
THE OCEAN BREATHER · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 19 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 12 sections: 96 keep time, 25 are fills, 18 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-144.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBZHES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ocean Breather?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Ocean Breather hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 The Ocean Breather?

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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