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Obscure · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 27 OF 36
Join Chorus 2 to Outro (bars 75-77)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCKSS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Obscure on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-76, ride through bars 77-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 57-63 and 65-75, and 1 more place -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-94 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Obscure?

110 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Obscure hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Obscure?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED