Against All Odds · Phil Collins

23 bars, 1:32, at 56 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
23
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-18 and 20-22 -- 84.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 56 BPM
AGAINST ALL ODDS · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 5 and 23.

LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 23
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

23 bars across 3 sections: 15 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

COUNT-IN
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Against All Odds?

56 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Against All Odds hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

23 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Against All Odds?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 5 and 23.

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