Symphony · Guilty gear

233 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 5:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 43-45, and 12 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
SYMPHONY · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 14, 18, 32, 40, 41, 42 and 40 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 23 sections: 142 keep time, 46 are fills, 8 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-30.

CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART S18
CHORUS 3
PART BI
18 groovesMBIGAFV+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Symphony?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Symphony hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Symphony?

25 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 14, 18, 32, 40, 41, 42 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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