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Obzen · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART T
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBFAWUT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Obzen on drums

186 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 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
186
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-113, hi-hat through bars 114-130, silence through bars 131-135 and snare through bars 136-151, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-8 and 18, and 5 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---X---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-xxx---x---x-|
Obzen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 9, 11, 25, 27, 32, 38 and 61 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- B, AW -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-99 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Obzen?

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 Obzen hard to play on drums?

63 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Obzen?

14 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 9, 11, 25, 27, 32, 38 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED