Of Sins And Shadows · Symphony X

224 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30, 42-47 and 50-54, and 8 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
OF SINS AND SHADOWS · BAR 141
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 7, 9, 11, 23, 31, 35 and 41 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 22 sections: 138 keep time, 49 are fills, 19 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-22.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART AO
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
14 groovesKIAOTB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Of Sins And Shadows?

185 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 Of Sins And Shadows hard to play on drums?

63 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Of Sins And Shadows?

25 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 7, 9, 11, 23, 31, 35 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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