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Deicide Warriors Ov The Abyss · Ancient North

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART H
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
CHORUS 9
PART A
CHORUS 10
PART H
CHORUS 11
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBAHGL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deicide Warriors Ov The Abyss on drums

448 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 7:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
448
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
91/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-34, hi-hat through bars 35-40, ride through bars 41-46, hi-hat through bars 47-52 and ride through bars 53-58, and 38 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-34, 41-46 and 53-58, and 14 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Deicide Warriors Ov The Abyss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 80, 96, 120, 144, 160, 304 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 71-125 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 123-136 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 127-137 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 189-350 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 349-388 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deicide Warriors Ov The Abyss?

190 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Deicide Warriors Ov The Abyss hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

448 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Deicide Warriors Ov The Abyss?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 80, 96, 120, 144, 160, 304 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 448 BARS ANALYSED