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My Own Savior · Abysmal Dawn

My Own Savior · Abysmal Dawn
EXERCISE 33 OF 66
3-bar fill at bar 75 and 3 more
138 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHKBAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Own Savior on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-57, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
My Own Savior -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-29 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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