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The Obsessive Devotion · Epica

EXERCISE 17 OF 130
Fill at bar 26, 231 and 330 (a small one)
141 / 334 BARS COVERED
0 / 130 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 4, OUTRO 2
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AY
CHORUS 4
PART BJ
OUTRO 2
23 groovesNFAYBJI+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 7
JOIN · 18
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Obsessive Devotion on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
334
LENGTH
7:08
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46, ride through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-52, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---x-x---x-|
The Obsessive Devotion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 98 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 -- N, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BJ -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-17 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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