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Abandon Us · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 32 OF 57
Fill at bar 61, 69 and 165
162 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abandon Us on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-61, snare through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-69, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Abandon Us -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- P, O -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-54 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-77 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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