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Abstraktions · Unwound

EXERCISE 9 OF 12
Join Part D to Outro (bars 26-28)
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0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abstraktions on drums

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

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
38/100

ride through bars 3-111.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-----x-----|
T2 |------------xxxx|
BD |x-x-------------|
Abstraktions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-27 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED