Obviously · McFly

99 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 22 and 24-25, and 5 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
OBVIOUSLY · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 52, 64, 78, 84 and 98.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 8 sections: 70 keep time, 6 are fills, 7 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-97.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGS1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Obviously?

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 Obviously hard to play on drums?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Obviously?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 52, 64, 78, 84 and 98.

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