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Oroborus · Gojira

EXERCISE 19 OF 84
Run A1 · Chorus (bars 1-31)
74 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART AC
PART AK
PART AL
OUTRO 2
10 groovesANARACAK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oroborus on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
70/100

ride through bars 1-26, toms through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-57, toms through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-74, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-31, 34-35 and 38-39, and 5 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30               31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|----x-----------|
HH |o---o---o-------|--------o---o---|
SD |--------x-x-----|--------x-------|
T1 |-----------x----|----------------|
T2 |------------x---|----------------|
FT |-------------x--|----------------|
BD |x------x------x-|----x--x--------|
Oroborus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 52 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-45 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Oroborus?

138 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 Oroborus hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Oroborus?

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED