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Out Of The Ashes · Symphony X

EXERCISE 25 OF 45
7-bar fill at bar 28
78 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AJ
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesOAAGS7AJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Out Of The Ashes on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-11, snare through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17, toms through bars 18-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-70, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Out Of The Ashes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-91 -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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