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The Accolade · Symphony X

EXERCISE 20 OF 104
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
58 / 263 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Accolade on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
11:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-21, ride through bars 22-43, silence through bars 44-45 and toms through bars 46-47, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x---|
BD |X--x--x---x---x-X--x----|
The Accolade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- X -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AW, V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 20-48 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-66 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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