The Accolade · Symphony X

263 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 122 BPM, 11:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
11:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-68, 70-72 and 74-76, and 3 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
THE ACCOLADE · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 21, 23, 25 and 49 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

263 bars across 20 sections: 71 keep time, 55 are fills, 23 are stops and 97 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-124.

PART H
PART X
PART AW
PART X
OUTRO 2
18 groovesS20XHAWAL+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Accolade?

122 BPM, in 6/4, 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 The Accolade hard to play on drums?

47 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

263 bars, about 11:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Accolade?

26 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 21, 23, 25 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 263 BARS ANALYSED
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