ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oblivions Peak on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 88 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 90
LENGTH: 4:04
DIFFICULTY: 65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-26, snare through bars 27-45, hi-hat through bars 46-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-60 and snare through bars 61-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 59 -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                3
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |--------------------------------|----------------------------o---|
SD |--------------------------------|----------------f-------x-x-----|
FT |x---x---------------------------|--------------------------------|
BD |x---x---------------------------|--------x-x-x-xx--x-x-xx--------|
HF |--------x-----------------------|--------------------------------|

Oblivions Peak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part AA -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part AA and Part AD -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 47-63 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Oblivions Peak?

88 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 Oblivions Peak hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Oblivions Peak?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED