Echoes In The Abyss · Veilborn

224 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 10:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
10:21
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-26, 33-36 and 43-46, and 3 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ECHOES IN THE ABYSS · BAR 23
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 17, 27, 37, 47, 51 and 24 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

241 bars across 33 sections: 157 keep time, 31 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
PART AG
PART AJ
PART AU
PART BI
19 groovesJGABIAG+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Echoes In The Abyss?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Echoes In The Abyss hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 10:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Echoes In The Abyss?

20 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 17, 27, 37, 47, 51 and 24 more.

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