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Beyond Oblivion · Trivium

EXERCISE 9 OF 103
Fill at bar 7 (a small one)
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0 / 103 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART G
PART M
PART R
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART BA
PART BG
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesPMRAJAL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beyond Oblivion on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
81/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, toms through bars 17-25, snare through bars 26-29, ride through bars 30-33 and toms through bars 34-37, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28-29 and 38-40, and 7 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---------------|
Beyond Oblivion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 4, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-21 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-45 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beyond Oblivion?

118 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 Beyond Oblivion hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 25 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 Beyond Oblivion?

24 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 4, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED