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Scream From The Abyss · Caliban

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEHS1KD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scream From The Abyss on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-102, silence through bars 103-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-127.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-42, 59-66 and 95-102 -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Scream From The Abyss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-54 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-68 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-97 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 101-127 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Scream From The Abyss?

150 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 Scream From The Abyss hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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