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Sea Of Lies · Symphony X

EXERCISE 23 OF 43
Join Chorus 2 to Part I (bars 53-55)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART X
OUTRO
9 groovesDIXS1S14+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sea Of Lies on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-17, toms through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-42, ride through bars 43-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 46-48, and 9 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 18, 19, 20, 21, 38 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-55 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-73 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sea Of Lies?

152 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 Sea Of Lies hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Sea Of Lies?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 18, 19, 20, 21, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED