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obsessed · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART F
8 groovesBFILS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play obsessed on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-21, silence through bars 22-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-29, hi-hat through bars 30-35 and kick and crashes through bars 36-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 25-27 and 36-43, and 2 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
obsessed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 29, 31, 51, 53, 55 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-30 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-52 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-58 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-73 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-83 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is obsessed?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 obsessed hard to play on drums?

35 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in obsessed?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 29, 31, 51, 53, 55 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED