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This Is Absolution · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 38 OF 62
2-bar fill at bar 78
110 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is Absolution on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-29, toms through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-43 and snare through bars 44-67, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-120 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-40 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-60 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part AC -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part AC and Part AF -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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