ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Of The Abyss on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 130 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 161
LENGTH: 4:57
DIFFICULTY: 95/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-45 and toms through bars 46-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 57-59, and 4 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25                                                               26
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------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-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-x-x-x-x-x-|

Of The Abyss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 16, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part C and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part H and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
Through Part H and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
and 13 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Of The Abyss?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Of The Abyss hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

161 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Of The Abyss?

22 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 16, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED