Ashes to Ashes · Xdinary Heroes

126 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 2:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-24, and 13 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 193 BPM
ASHES TO ASHES · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 12 more.

LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 13 sections: 73 keep time, 18 are fills, 9 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-118.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART U
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBFNS11U+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ashes to Ashes?

193 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 Ashes to Ashes hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ashes to Ashes?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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