Absolute Territory · Ken Ashcorp

132 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 29-35, and 4 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
ABSOLUTE TERRITORY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 36, 60, 68, 76, 80 and 4 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time, 10 are fills, 13 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesCKGS1A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Absolute Territory?

126 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 Absolute Territory hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Absolute Territory?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 36, 60, 68, 76, 80 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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