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Abigor · Cryptopsy

EXERCISE 3 OF 69
Groove Q -- Part Q
69 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART Q
PART T
CHORUS 6
PART Q
PART Q
OUTRO
12 groovesDQTACC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abigor on drums

192 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
100/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-53, ride through bars 54-57, hi-hat through bars 58-61 and ride through bars 62-69, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-27 and 38-53, and 8 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Abigor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 34, 57, 61, 69, 81, 85 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Abigor?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Abigor hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Abigor?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 34, 57, 61, 69, 81, 85 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED