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The Other Half Of Me · Born Of Osiris

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART E
PART F
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBFES1K+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Other Half Of Me on drums

169 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-16 and snare through bars 17-169.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 11 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-|
The Other Half Of Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 41, 45, 49 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-90 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-111 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Other Half Of Me?

195 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 Other Half Of Me hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Other Half Of Me?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 41, 45, 49 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED