Odyssey · Symphony X

780 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 22:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
780
LENGTH
22:40
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 340-346, 348-350 and 352-354, and 8 more places -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ODYSSEY · BAR 693
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

73 fills to learn, played 151 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 145 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9

71 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

780 bars across 71 sections: 342 keep time, 152 are fills, 69 are stops and 159 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 710-724.

PART S16
PART GM
60 groovesDTHVGMS16BH+55Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Odyssey?

140 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 Odyssey hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

780 bars, about 22:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 248 exercises over 74 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 Odyssey?

73 fills to learn, played 151 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 145 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 780 BARS ANALYSED
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