Absolved, Sir · Liam Sache

128 bars, 9:01, at 59 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
59 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
9:01
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76-91, 96-110 and 112-123 -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 59 BPM
ABSOLVED, SIR · BAR 84
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 39, 74, 75 and 111.

LOOP · 59 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 59 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 10 sections: 77 keep time, 5 are fills, 30 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-62.

PART B
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesFTUNB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Absolved, Sir?

59 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Absolved, Sir hard to play on drums?

61 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 9:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Absolved, Sir?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 39, 74, 75 and 111.

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