Oblivion · Vektor

225 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-50, and 27 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
OBLIVION · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 55 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 17 sections: 128 keep time, 61 are fills, 8 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 201-209.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 6
PART AK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesNAKDS17Y+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oblivion?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth 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?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 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?

22 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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