In Oblivion · Colotyphus

217 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
6:41
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-35 and 41-55, and 12 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
IN OBLIVION · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 40, 56, 64, 72, 88 and 20 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 15 sections: 173 keep time, 26 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-23.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART U
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEUQOB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Oblivion?

130 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 In Oblivion hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 6:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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 In Oblivion?

18 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 40, 56, 64, 72, 88 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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