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Searching For Oblivion · MeatGrinder

Searching For Oblivion · MeatGrinder
EXERCISE 22 OF 37
Run M1 · Part M (bars 33-47)
61 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Searching For Oblivion on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-14, ride through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-32, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |X-----------X-----------X-----------X-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Searching For Oblivion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-41 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-56 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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