Abandonment · Were Not Friends Anymore

132 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-82 and 115-127 -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
ABANDONMENT · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 20, 24, 28 and 21 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 76 keep time, 27 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-127.

PART G
PART I
PART M
CHORUS
PART W
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesNAGIMP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Abandonment?

125 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 Abandonment 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Abandonment?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 20, 24, 28 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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