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Obviously · McFly

EXERCISE 21 OF 25
Play the whole song with the record
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Obviously on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-99.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------|
Obviously -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-59 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-79 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED