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Isolation · Ayreon

EXERCISE 9 OF 27
Join Chorus to Part L (bars 27-29)
33 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Isolation on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, snare through bars 20-22, toms through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-31, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-x-------------|
BD |x-x-------------|
Isolation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-33 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part N and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-56 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED