This Is Absolution · Killswitch Engage

138 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 19 and 21, and 7 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THIS IS ABSOLUTION · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 30, 31, 43, 47 and 16 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 22 are fills and 42 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-94.

CHORUS
PART E
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AC
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJACUM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is Absolution?

160 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 This Is Absolution hard to play on drums?

59 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 This Is Absolution?

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 30, 31, 43, 47 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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