Thank You For The Music · ABBA

90 bars, 6:33, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 55 BPM
THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 54, 76, 82 and 3 more.

LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 9 sections: 49 keep time, 9 are fills and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-64.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
7 groovesDS2S6CS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thank You For The Music?

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

Is Thank You For The Music hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Thank You For The Music?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 54, 76, 82 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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