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Abigail · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 10 OF 63
Join Part C to Break (bars 3-5)
46 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, BREAK
PART C
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART R
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART S11
11 groovesGVCOS11+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abigail on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, snare through bars 50-89, silence through bars 90-94, toms through bars 95-96 and snare through bars 97-106.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-22 and 24-26, and 5 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Abigail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- G, C -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-16 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-39 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Abigail?

147 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 Abigail hard to play on drums?

54 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 Abigail?

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED