Abigail · Happy Days

303 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 9:06 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
303
LENGTH
9:06
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-23, and 13 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ABIGAIL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 44, 52, 60, 68, 76 and 5 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 181 · LANDS ON BAR 182
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

303 bars across 5 sections: 245 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 215-303.

CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHFS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Abigail?

100 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Abigail hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

303 bars, about 9:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Abigail?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 44, 52, 60, 68, 76 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 303 BARS ANALYSED
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