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Where Owls Know My Name · Rivers Of Nihil

EXERCISE 5 OF 100
Groove AB -- Part AB (a two-bar phrase)
52 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART H
CHORUS
PART AB
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART AP
PART AU
CHORUS 3
PART AZ
OUTRO
BREAK 3
13 groovesUAUHABAZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Owls Know My Name on drums

225 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-46, hi-hat through bars 47-48, snare through bars 49-54, ride through bars 55-56 and snare through bars 57-63, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-51, 53-54 and 57-59, and 9 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49               50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---x---x---X---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-------x-x-x-|
Where Owls Know My Name -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- U, AU -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 12-81 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Where Owls Know My Name?

160 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 Where Owls Know My Name hard to play on drums?

58 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Where Owls Know My Name?

25 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED