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To Another Abyss · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 6 OF 24
Join Part A to Part C (bars 7-9)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
6 groovesECAJS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Another Abyss on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-39, snare through bars 40-56 and ride through bars 57-58, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16 and 40-47 -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
To Another Abyss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-18 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-74 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is To Another Abyss?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 To Another Abyss hard to play on drums?

49 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 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.

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