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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO

64 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

186

LENGTH

11:38

DIFFICULTY

62/100

ride through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 22 more changes after that.

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.

    62
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----x--x--|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|

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

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- X, AB -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part A -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 12-25 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part F and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Bars 29-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
8. Bars 41-120 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 9 more sittings after that.