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Obvious · blink-182

EXERCISE 38 OF 43
2-bar fill at bar 99
91 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Obvious on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-61, silence through bars 62-76, snare through bars 77-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-109.

The beat

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.

    77
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Obvious -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- W, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-21 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-61 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED