My Own Savior · Abysmal Dawn

202 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 19-24 and 34-40, and 23 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
MY OWN SAVIOR · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 17 and 64 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 8 sections: 114 keep time, 70 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 186-199.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHKBAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Own Savior?

200 BPM, in 4/4, 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 My Own Savior hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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 My Own Savior?

23 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 17 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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