Oblivion · Mastodon

210 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 102 BPM, 7:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
7:08
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57, 59-63 and 65, and 10 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
OBLIVION · BARS 59-60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 85 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 12 sections: 93 keep time, 91 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART E
PART V
CHORUS
PART AQ
OUTRO 2
11 groovesZAQEVAW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oblivion?

102 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 7:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Oblivion?

27 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 85 more.

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