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EXERCISE 33 OF 57
Run L2 · Part L (bars 46-57)
87 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGLKS2N+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Symphony No. 40 on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-19, snare through bars 20-34, toms through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and snare through bars 46-47, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 38-43, and 6 more places -- 23% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Symphony No. 40 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 15, 19, 20 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-26 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-58 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-71 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Symphony No. 40?

110 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 Symphony No. 40 hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Symphony No. 40?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 15, 19, 20 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED