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Of Sins And Shadows · Symphony X

EXERCISE 34 OF 85
Groove Z -- Part Z
164 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z, PART I, CHORUS 4
CHORUS
PART I
PART Z
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Of Sins And Shadows on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-12, toms through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-31, ride through bars 32-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-79, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    141
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Of Sins And Shadows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- K, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-75 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-120 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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