Bad Obsession · Guns N' Roses

132 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 18-38 and 40-42, and 8 more places -- 85.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAD OBSESSION · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 53, 61, 62, 82, 123 and 124.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 5 sections: 100 keep time, 6 are fills, 16 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-37.

OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS4S1S3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Obsession?

130 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 Bad Obsession hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bad Obsession?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 53, 61, 62, 82, 123 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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