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Orbitoclast · Dopewhore

Orbitoclast · Dopewhore
EXERCISE 2 OF 70
Groove P -- Part P
40 / 254 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART C
PART P
CHORUS
PART AS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAACASPH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Orbitoclast on drums

252 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
100/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-14, ride through bars 15-53, hi-hat through bars 54-72, ride through bars 73-94 and toms through bars 95-103, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-93 and 216-235 -- 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.

    74
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
SD |x----------x---------x----------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Orbitoclast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 67, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Orbitoclast?

207 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 Orbitoclast hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 28 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 Orbitoclast?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 67, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED