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Absolution · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove M -- Chorus
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PART A
PART H
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART S10
CHORUS 3
9 groovesMAHDS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Absolution on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, toms through bars 43-44, ride through bars 45-54, hi-hat through bars 55-76, toms through bars 77-78 and ride through bars 79-89, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-48, 52-53 and 81-82, and 6 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Absolution -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 28, 36, 62 and 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- M, A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-24 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-38 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Absolution?

122 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 Absolution hard to play on drums?

59 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Absolution?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 28, 36, 62 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED