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Abandoned · Unprocessed

EXERCISE 10 OF 122
Groove F
34 / 265 BARS COVERED
0 / 122 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART AS
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART AB
PART AS
PART C
CHORUS
20 groovesS18CS1ABQ+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 31
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 10
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abandoned on drums

265 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
265
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-39, ride through bars 40-45, hi-hat through bars 46-80, ride through bars 81-96 and snare through bars 97-119, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-51, 53 and 57, and 5 more places -- 5.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-----------x-|
Abandoned -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 44, 45, 46 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 100 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 22 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Abandoned?

215 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 Abandoned hard to play on drums?

53 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

265 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 100 exercises over 30 sittings, about 26 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 Abandoned?

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 44, 45, 46 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 265 BARS ANALYSED