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Oblivion · Lorna Shore

EXERCISE 26 OF 81
7-bar fill at bar 46 and 1 more
94 / 237 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, CHORUS 5
COUNT-IN
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART N
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART N
PART S21
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBNS21S1S8+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oblivion on drums

237 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
7:17
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-44, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 77-79 and 81-82, and 9 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Oblivion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26 and 75 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-31 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 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 Oblivion hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 7:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 18 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 Oblivion?

24 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED