Abyssal Archives · Neleph

132 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-14, 17-18 and 21, and 4 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
ABYSSAL ARCHIVES · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 50, 51, 59, 60, 61, 89 and 1 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 59-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 13 sections: 105 keep time, 7 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-44.

PART A
CHORUS
PART U
PART AF
PART AI
PART AM
PART AO
OUTRO
13 groovesGAIAS12AO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Abyssal Archives?

225 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Abyssal Archives hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 23 sittings, about 22 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 Abyssal Archives?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 50, 51, 59, 60, 61, 89 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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