All The Fools Sailed Away · Ronnie James Dio

193 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 6:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
6:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8-17 and 19-20, and 12 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
ALL THE FOOLS SAILED AWAY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 42, 43, 63, 77, 100, 118 and 4 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 16 sections: 121 keep time, 10 are fills, 30 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-169.

CHORUS
PART S4
PART F
PART AB
PART K
12 groovesCABUS4K+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All The Fools Sailed Away?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 All The Fools Sailed Away hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 6:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 All The Fools Sailed Away?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 42, 43, 63, 77, 100, 118 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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