Obsolete · Distortion

300 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 6:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
6:04
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6-9 and 11-14, and 20 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 184 BPM
OBSOLETE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 57, 65, 69, 73, 77, 81 and 28 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

328 bars across 18 sections: 271 keep time, 34 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-39.

CHORUS
PART C
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART M
PART H
PART M
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAMFHC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Obsolete?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Obsolete hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

300 bars, about 6:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Obsolete?

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 57, 65, 69, 73, 77, 81 and 28 more.

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