Seasons In The Abyss · Slayer

186 bars, 11:38, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
11:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-50 and 62-63, and 20 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 64 BPM
SEASONS IN THE ABYSS · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 16, 17 and 55 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 64 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 12 sections: 108 keep time, 62 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-131.

PART A
PART L
PART U
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AU
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesXABALU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seasons In The Abyss?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Seasons In The Abyss hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 11:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Seasons In The Abyss?

27 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 16, 17 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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