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Bad Obsession · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove D -- Outro 2
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OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS4S1S3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Obsession on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-60, toms through bars 61-62, snare through bars 63-105, toms through bars 106-107 and snare through bars 108-122, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------|
Bad Obsession -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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