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Absolute Hope Absolute Hell · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 11 OF 48
Groove E
38 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AG
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJCAGRAQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Absolute Hope Absolute Hell on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-35, toms through bars 36-37 and kick and crashes through bars 38-42, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-18, and 2 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o-o-o---o-o---o-o---|
SD |----------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----------x-|
Absolute Hope Absolute Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 23-29 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Absolute Hope Absolute Hell?

85 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Absolute Hope Absolute Hell hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Absolute Hope Absolute Hell?

10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED