Rail Canyon: Act 1 · Sonic X Shadow Generations

102 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-36 and 39-40, and 5 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
RAIL CANYON: ACT 1 · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 11, 12, 13 and 55 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 10 sections: 28 keep time, 61 are fills and 2 are stops.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
4 groovesSBEMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rail Canyon: Act 1?

158 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 Rail Canyon: Act 1 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Rail Canyon: Act 1?

16 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 11, 12, 13 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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