Accolade · Clarion

121 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 79-81, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 166 BPM
ACCOLADE · BARS 31-32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 41 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 6-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 13 sections: 55 keep time, 47 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-49.

CHORUS
PART O
PART S
PART X
PART O
PART AC
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAOAGXS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Accolade?

166 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 Accolade hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in Accolade?

11 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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