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Abysmal · Angelmaker

EXERCISE 23 OF 65
Groove O -- Part O
73 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART O
PART F
PART L
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART O
PART X
PART S
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDAHSFX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abysmal on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-25, snare through bars 26-70, hi-hat through bars 71-74, ride through bars 75-82 and toms through bars 83-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Abysmal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, AH -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-35 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-43 -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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