The Shadow Of The Abattoir · Trivium

217 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 8:20 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
8:20
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-6, 9-14 and 49-54 -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
THE SHADOW OF THE ABATTOIR · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 28, 36 and 81 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 21 sections: 103 keep time, 87 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-27.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AG
PART AO
PART AW
PART BL
PART BR
OUTRO
18 groovesAQBRGAO+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Shadow Of The Abattoir?

82 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Shadow Of The Abattoir hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 8:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 109 exercises over 37 sittings, about 26 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 The Shadow Of The Abattoir?

28 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 28, 36 and 81 more.

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