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Fade Into Obscurity · Dehumanized

EXERCISE 6 OF 104
Groove A -- Part A
64 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS, BREAK 2
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
PART AM
PART AO
PART AT
PART BB
OUTRO
15 groovesDAOBBAMAT+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fade Into Obscurity on drums

195 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
80/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34, toms through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 18 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.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x-------x---x---x-------|
Fade Into Obscurity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 20, 28, 35 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO, AM -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-37 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fade Into Obscurity?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fade Into Obscurity hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 Fade Into Obscurity?

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 20, 28, 35 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED