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Condemned To Obscurity · Gorguts

EXERCISE 7 OF 46
Groove I -- Chorus
27 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Condemned To Obscurity on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-20, hi-hat through bars 21-33, ride through bars 34-38, hi-hat through bars 39-113 and silence through bars 114-163, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Condemned To Obscurity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-71 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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