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Absolomb · Periphery

EXERCISE 1 OF 85
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesEIUS18AO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Absolomb on drums

249 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-72, toms through bars 73-77, snare through bars 78-80 and toms through bars 81-84, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-16, 22-24 and 30-32, and 13 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x-x-----x-----x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |--x-x---x---xxxx|xxx---x---x-x-x-|
Absolomb -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 74, 75, 76, 81, 82 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- I, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Absolomb?

180 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 Absolomb hard to play on drums?

51 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

249 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Absolomb?

17 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 74, 75, 76, 81, 82 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED