Godspeed to Oblivion · Spinal Fracture

167 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 50-52, and 7 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
GODSPEED TO OBLIVION · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 17, 25 and 19 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 13 sections: 108 keep time, 25 are fills, 12 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-151.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART W
PART Y
CHORUS 3
10 groovesHCYSW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Godspeed to Oblivion?

112 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 Godspeed to Oblivion hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Godspeed to Oblivion?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 17, 25 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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