As The Sun Goes Dawn · Abhor

139 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 2:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 19-22, and 9 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
AS THE SUN GOES DAWN · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 34, 42, 66, 86, 117 and 2 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 17 sections: 98 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-134.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 5
PART N
PART P
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHPNS14S17+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As The Sun Goes Dawn?

145 BPM, in 3/4, 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 As The Sun Goes Dawn hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 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 As The Sun Goes Dawn?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 34, 42, 66, 86, 117 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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