Devour Me Colossus Part 1 Blackholes · Ne Obliviscaris

405 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 99 BPM, 12:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
405
LENGTH
12:33
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 61-63, and 13 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 99 BPM
DEVOUR ME COLOSSUS PART 1 BLACKHOLES · BAR 259
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 17, 24 and 55 more.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

405 bars across 30 sections: 279 keep time, 61 are fills, 8 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 300-330.

PART AK
PART AW
CHORUS 5
PART BM
PART BP
OUTRO
20 groovesCGOAKBM+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Devour Me Colossus Part 1 Blackholes?

99 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Devour Me Colossus Part 1 Blackholes hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

405 bars, about 12:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 111 exercises over 39 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 Devour Me Colossus Part 1 Blackholes?

29 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 17, 24 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 405 BARS ANALYSED
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