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The Abyss · Cypecore

EXERCISE 8 OF 61
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART S18
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBAHS18AA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Abyss on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-22, hi-hat through bars 23-32, snare through bars 33-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54 and snare through bars 55-90, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- B, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-64 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-73 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-100 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-123 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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