Avowal · Kilgore

175 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 49 and 53, and 6 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
AVOWAL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31 and 39 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 19 sections: 97 keep time, 45 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART V
9 groovesKARVAI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Avowal?

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

Is Avowal hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Avowal?

14 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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