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Oblivion · Aviana

Oblivion · Aviana
EXERCISE 23 OF 53
Groove L
99 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBGS12JS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oblivion on drums

160 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45, snare through bars 46-95, silence through bars 96-114 and snare through bars 115-122, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 18 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x---x---x---x-|
Oblivion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 21, 25, 29, 33, 45 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-30 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-34 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Oblivion?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Oblivion hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 18 times: bars 12, 21, 25, 29, 33, 45 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED