Searching For Oblivion · MeatGrinder

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 7 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SEARCHING FOR OBLIVION · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 40.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 17 sections: 64 keep time, 2 are fills, 15 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART M
PART Q
PART S
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART D
14 groovesBMESI+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Searching For Oblivion?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Searching For Oblivion hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Searching For Oblivion?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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