Obvious · blink-182

109 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-82, 85-90 and 93-98, and 1 more place -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
OBVIOUS · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 18, 19, 20, 28, 36 and 20 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 26 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART B
PART E
PART J
PART B
PART E
PART J
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesWJEBS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Obvious?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Obvious hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Obvious?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 18, 19, 20, 28, 36 and 20 more.

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