Obscura · Gorguts

120 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-5, 7-8 and 10-11, and 6 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
OBSCURA · BARS 4-5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23 and 36 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 57 keep time, 42 are fills, 7 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-93.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART D
OUTRO
8 groovesHDZS12K+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Obscura?

110 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 Obscura hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Obscura?

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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