Deathspell Style · Abylith

325 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 8:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
325
LENGTH
8:40
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-62, 64-66 and 70-71, and 13 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DEATHSPELL STYLE · BAR 60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15 and 65 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 18-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

325 bars across 17 sections: 165 keep time, 72 are fills, 67 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 262-293.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKQNADAU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deathspell Style?

150 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Deathspell Style hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

325 bars, about 8:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Deathspell Style?

17 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15 and 65 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 325 BARS ANALYSED
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