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Saosin- Lost Symphonies tst · saosin

EXERCISE 44 OF 73
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 1-94)
108 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 94 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART AM
OUTRO
7 groovesCS7AMS2AF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saosin- Lost Symphonies tst on drums

140 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, toms through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-24 and snare through bars 25-32, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 11, and 31 more places -- 29.3% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x-x-|
Saosin- Lost Symphonies tst -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, AM -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-118 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 1-103 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Saosin- Lost Symphonies tst?

180 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 Saosin- Lost Symphonies tst hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Saosin- Lost Symphonies tst?

25 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED