Abandon Us · Killswitch Engage

184 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-52, 54-56 and 58-60, and 19 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ABANDON US · BAR 86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 30 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 10 sections: 101 keep time, 36 are fills, 39 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-130.

PART M
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesPIOMA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Abandon Us?

200 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 Abandon Us hard to play on drums?

46 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Abandon Us?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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