Abstraktions · Unwound

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:33 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 23-26 and 28, and 1 more place -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ABSTRAKTIONS · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 7 sections: 99 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-110.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Abstraktions?

80 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 Abstraktions 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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