Condemned To Obscurity · Gorguts

200 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-57, 59-63 and 65-70, and 8 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CONDEMNED TO OBSCURITY · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 9, 21, 39, 55, 58 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 16 sections: 115 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 55 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-187.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART N
PART A
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS13INBA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Condemned To Obscurity?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Condemned To Obscurity hard to play on drums?

56 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 6:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Condemned To Obscurity?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 9, 21, 39, 55, 58 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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