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Highway To Oblivion · Dragonforce

EXERCISE 32 OF 127
2-bar fill at bar 62 and 1 more
161 / 319 BARS COVERED
0 / 127 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART AI
CHORUS
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AI
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
OUTRO 2
22 groovesRAEAANAI+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 32
LAND · 32
RUN · 5
JOIN · 21
LINK · 9
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Highway To Oblivion on drums

319 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 8:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
319
LENGTH
8:48
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-9, silence through bars 10-14, toms through bars 15-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-37 and toms through bars 38-49, and 41 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-51, 58-61 and 118-119, and 13 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Highway To Oblivion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

32 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 37, 39 and 72 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 94 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 -- R -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-46 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-50 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-257 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 68-135 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Highway To Oblivion?

145 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 Highway To Oblivion hard to play on drums?

62 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

319 bars, about 8:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 94 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 Highway To Oblivion?

32 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 37, 39 and 72 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 319 BARS ANALYSED