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The Ocean Breather · Assemble The Chariots

The Ocean Breather · Assemble The Chariots
EXERCISE 11 OF 62
Fill at bar 32
108 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ocean Breather on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-32, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                                                                10
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------------------x-------------------|------------x-----------x-------------------x-----------x-------|
The Ocean Breather -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- B, A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-52 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 55-65 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-92 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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