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All The Fools Sailed Away · Ronnie James Dio

EXERCISE 6 OF 57
Groove D
86 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART M
CHORUS
PART M
PART S4
PART F
PART AB
PART K
12 groovesCABUS4K+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All The Fools Sailed Away on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
6:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-41, toms through bars 42-43, ride through bars 44-78, silence through bars 79-95 and kick and crashes through bars 96-99, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
All The Fools Sailed Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- C, AB -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 5-101 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 92-111 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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