Spiral To Oblivion · Ophidian I

234 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-8, 12-17 and 21-27, and 9 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 270 BPM
SPIRAL TO OBLIVION · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 28, 34, 35 and 57 more.

LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 21 sections: 141 keep time, 63 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-51.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 5
PART AK
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDWOAKS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spiral To Oblivion?

270 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 Spiral To Oblivion hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Spiral To Oblivion?

23 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 28, 34, 35 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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