In Absensce of the Gods · Distortion

222 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
222
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 42 and 44, and 8 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
IN ABSENSCE OF THE GODS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 49, 53, 61, 65, 69, 78 and 19 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

222 bars across 15 sections: 138 keep time, 25 are fills, 38 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-45.

PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART C
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGCQKA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Absensce of the Gods?

170 BPM, in 4/4, 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 In Absensce of the Gods hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

222 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 In Absensce of the Gods?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 49, 53, 61, 65, 69, 78 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 222 BARS ANALYSED
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