My Obsession · Skillet

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 4 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
MY OBSESSION · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 21, 23, 25, 27, 71 and 11 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 13 sections: 63 keep time, 17 are fills and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-42.

PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART Z
PART AA
BREAK
PART AE
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesMFS8AKC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Obsession?

95 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 My Obsession hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 My Obsession?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 21, 23, 25, 27, 71 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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