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Oblivion · Ankor

EXERCISE 20 OF 41
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 24-26)
33 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART AE
BREAK
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLBS1ANAE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oblivion on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-21, toms through bars 22-27, hi-hat through bars 28-41, toms through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-45, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 41 and 60, and 2 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x--x--x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-xxxx|
Oblivion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AE -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-60 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Oblivion?

80 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 Oblivion hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Oblivion?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED