← SONGS

Ashes to Ashes · Xdinary Heroes

EXERCISE 7 OF 40
Groove F -- Part F
58 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ashes to Ashes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
Ashes to Ashes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, U -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 10-89 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-44 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-68 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-121 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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