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1- Inferno (Unleash the Fire) · Symphony X

EXERCISE 25 OF 58
7-bar fill at bar 54
141 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesSDAHJV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 1- Inferno (Unleash the Fire) on drums

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 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|
1- Inferno (Unleash the Fire) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

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.
  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. Open above.
  8. Bars 74-94 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 1- Inferno (Unleash the Fire)?

152 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 1- Inferno (Unleash the Fire) hard to play on drums?

57 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 1- Inferno (Unleash the Fire)?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED