Journey To The Abyss · Black Moria

106 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-17, 21-34 and 37-44, and 1 more place -- 74.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
JOURNEY TO THE ABYSS · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 83 keep time, 6 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-44.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesCS6DAS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Journey To The Abyss?

135 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 Journey To The Abyss hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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