The Obsessive Devotion · Epica

334 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 7:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
334
LENGTH
7:08
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33 and 35, and 19 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
THE OBSESSIVE DEVOTION · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 41 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

334 bars across 37 sections: 225 keep time, 47 are fills, 18 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-46.

PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AY
PART BJ
23 groovesNFAYBJI+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Obsessive Devotion?

180 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 The Obsessive Devotion hard to play on drums?

62 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?

334 bars, about 7:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Obsessive Devotion?

31 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 334 BARS ANALYSED
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