Obfuscation · Between The Buried And Me

386 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 10:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
386
LENGTH
10:12
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84, 86 and 88, and 9 more places -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
OBFUSCATION · BAR 84
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 17 and 75 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

31 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

386 bars across 25 sections: 196 keep time, 81 are fills and 72 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 235-257.

PART L
PART L
CHORUS
PART BN
CHORUS 2
PART CW
PART DN
PART EK
OUTRO
21 groovesAOLEKCWBN+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Obfuscation?

150 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 Obfuscation hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

386 bars, about 10:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 129 exercises over 44 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Obfuscation?

33 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 17 and 75 more.

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