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Oblivion · Mastodon

EXERCISE 6 OF 91
Groove C -- Part C
69 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART E
PART V
CHORUS
PART AQ
OUTRO 2
11 groovesZAQEVAW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oblivion on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
7:08
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and toms through bars 33-34, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    59               60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o-oo|o-o-o-o-o---o---|
SD |-g-g-g--x--g-g-g|-g-g-g--x----gxX|
BD |x---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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, AQ -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-17 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED