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EXERCISE 10 OF 100
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-9)
89 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 11
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abduction Song on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-39, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- J, I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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