Abysmal · Angelmaker

124 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 43-49 and 67-69, and 1 more place -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ABYSMAL · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 18, 36, 37 and 30 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 36-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 13 sections: 64 keep time, 36 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART F
PART L
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART X
PART S
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDAHSFX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Abysmal?

140 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 Abysmal hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 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 Abysmal?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 18, 36, 37 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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