ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ocean on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 90 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 109
LENGTH: 4:49
DIFFICULTY: 73/100

hi-hat through bars 2-50, silence through bars 51-57, hi-hat through bars 58-107 and snare through bars 108-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 5 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26                                               27
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----------x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------f-----------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----------x-----|x-----g--g-----g--------x-------x-x-------------|

The Ocean -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 65, 81, 82 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- R, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
Through Part G and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 48-73 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is The Ocean?

90 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 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ocean?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 65, 81, 82 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED