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Absorbed · Superjoint Ritual

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
PART Q
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFNKBQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Absorbed on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-64, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17                                               18
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|------x-----------x-----------------x-----------|
Absorbed -- 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 25, 29, 101, 107 and 127.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-63 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-98 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED