Isolation · Ayreon

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11 and 52-55 -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
ISOLATION · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 47.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 10 sections: 41 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHBDPT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Isolation?

83 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Isolation hard to play on drums?

44 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Isolation?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 47.

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