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Absent · Brou

EXERCISE 7 OF 38
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 20-22)
85 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCMQS1E+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Absent on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, snare through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46, snare through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-63, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 18 and 20, and 19 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 38, 50 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-30 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-130 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-92 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-111 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Absent?

140 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 Absent hard to play on drums?

55 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Absent?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 38, 50 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED