Abduction Song · Avatar

215 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31 and 35, and 27 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
ABDUCTION SONG · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 29, 32, 33 and 30 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 26 sections: 109 keep time, 36 are fills, 40 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 192-199.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Z
PART AI
PART B
17 groovesIPAIGZ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Abduction Song?

175 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 Abduction Song hard to play on drums?

64 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Abduction Song?

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 29, 32, 33 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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