1- Inferno (Unleash the Fire) · Symphony X

189 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

152 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

189

LENGTH

4:59

DIFFICULTY

57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, snare through bars 24-26 and toms through bars 27-32, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-37, 39-45 and 47-53, and 15 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x---xx--xx|

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 21 more.

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- S, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Bars 54-78 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 74-94 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.