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Deathspell Style · Abylith

EXERCISE 19 OF 79
4-bar fill at bar 2
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PART B
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deathspell Style on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
325
LENGTH
8:40
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-55, ride through bars 56-59, hi-hat through bars 60-67 and ride through bars 68-69, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Deathspell Style -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part Q and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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