ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Enthroned Abominations on drums

157 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 289 BPM, 3:52 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 289 BPM
TIME: 8/4
BARS: 157
LENGTH: 3:52
DIFFICULTY: 84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-46, ride through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52, toms through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-67 and toms through bars 68-70, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 27 and 29-30 -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23                                               24
    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....7.....8..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....7.....8.....
CC |------------------------------------------------|x-----x-----------------------------------------|
HH |o-----o-----------o-----o-----------o-----o-----|------------------------------------------------|
SD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|------------------------------------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|------------x-xx-x------x-xx-xx-xxx-------------|
FT |------------------------------------------------|------------------xx-x-x------------x-xx-xxx-x-x|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
HF |---x-----x-----------x-----x-----------x--------|------------------------------------------------|

Enthroned Abominations -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 30, 32 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
Through Part E and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Bars 5-22 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Through Part K and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part P and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Enthroned Abominations?

289 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Enthroned Abominations hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Enthroned Abominations?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 30, 32 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED