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Oblivion · Vektor

EXERCISE 27 OF 72
Groove O
161 / 225 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oblivion on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-27, snare through bars 28-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-50, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Oblivion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-35 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-103 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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