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Abacab (revisado) · Genesis

EXERCISE 4 OF 41
Groove C
131 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
6 groovesAOEGR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abacab (revisado) on drums

214 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 6:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-80, snare through bars 81-86, hi-hat through bars 87-106, snare through bars 107-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-214.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13, 15-33 and 41, and 9 more places -- 50.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Abacab (revisado) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 66, 76, 77, 78 and 84.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- A, O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 34-194 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-70 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-79 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-104 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 103-125 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 123-183 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Abacab (revisado)?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Abacab (revisado) hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Abacab (revisado)?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 66, 76, 77, 78 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED