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Ride Into Obsession · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 21 OF 107
Fill at bar 56, 124 and 216 (a small one)
133 / 249 BARS COVERED
0 / 107 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 11
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ride Into Obsession on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
82/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, ride through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-70, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ride Into Obsession -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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