Ride Into Obsession · Blind Guardian

249 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 29-35, and 11 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
RIDE INTO OBSESSION · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 25 and 53 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

249 bars across 21 sections: 153 keep time, 59 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

CHORUS
PART M
PART V
PART M
PART T
PART M
OUTRO
11 groovesFMAAZT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ride Into Obsession?

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

Is Ride Into Obsession hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

249 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Ride Into Obsession?

27 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 25 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED
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