Obsession · Lorna Shore

121 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 10-12 and 42-44, and 3 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
OBSESSION · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 11, 13, 17 and 36 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 20 sections: 47 keep time, 42 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-64.

PART T
CHORUS 4
PART Z
PART S13
PART M
8 groovesBMJZE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 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 Obsession hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Obsession?

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 11, 13, 17 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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