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My Obsession · Skillet

EXERCISE 11 OF 58
Fill at bar 104 (a small one)
41 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Obsession on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-43, snare through bars 44-50, hi-hat through bars 51-53 and toms through bars 54-56, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----x-----|
My Obsession -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- M, Z -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-105 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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