ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Into Oblivion on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 135 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 120
LENGTH: 3:33
DIFFICULTY: 72/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-35 and toms through bars 36-44, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-42, 61-66 and 73, and 1 more place -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37                               38
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
T2 |------x-------------x-----------|------x-------------x-x---------|
FT |------------x-----------x---x---|------------x-----------x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Into Oblivion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L, T -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 1-21 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 25-37 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 8 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Into Oblivion?

135 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 Into Oblivion hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 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 Into Oblivion?

22 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED