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Symphony · Guilty gear
EXERCISE 1 OF 106
Groove M -- Chorus
0 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 106 PASSED · 53 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART S18
CHORUS 3
PART BI
OUTRO
18 groovesMBIGAFV+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Symphony on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22 and kick and crashes through bars 23-32, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-----x---x-----|
Symphony -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BI -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-19 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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