Absorbed · Superjoint Ritual

129 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 10 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ABSORBED · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 29, 101, 107 and 127.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 77 keep time, 5 are fills, 32 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-121.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFNKBQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Absorbed?

110 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 Absorbed hard to play on drums?

58 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Absorbed?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 29, 101, 107 and 127.

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