Out Of The Ashes · Symphony X

115 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 35-37, and 7 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
OUT OF THE ASHES · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 40 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 46 are fills, 9 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-52.

PART A
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AJ
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesOAAGS7AJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Out Of The Ashes?

135 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 Out Of The Ashes hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Out Of The Ashes?

12 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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