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Abandonment · Were Not Friends Anymore

Abandonment · Were Not Friends Anymore
EXERCISE 25 OF 70
Run M1 · Part M (bars 32-40)
81 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abandonment on drums

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.

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
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-38, hi-hat through bars 39-45, snare through bars 46-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-93, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    77
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Abandonment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- AG, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-25 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-35 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-88 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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