The Abyss · Cypecore

205 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-14 and 17-18, and 11 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
THE ABYSS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 15, 16, 19, 24, 39 and 21 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 20 sections: 88 keep time, 27 are fills, 58 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-38.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART S18
12 groovesBAHS18AA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Abyss?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Abyss hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 The Abyss?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 15, 16, 19, 24, 39 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
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