The Divine Wings Of Tragedy · Symphony X

645 bars, 37:48, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
645
LENGTH
37:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 44-54 and 56-58, and 7 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
THE DIVINE WINGS OF TRAGEDY · BAR 36
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

42 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 23, 27, 43, 65, 74, 75 and 64 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

38 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

645 bars across 65 sections: 368 keep time, 70 are fills, 34 are stops and 108 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 309-338.

BREAK 8
50 groovesMS65AHARBY+45Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Divine Wings Of Tragedy?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Divine Wings Of Tragedy hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

645 bars, about 37:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 204 exercises over 54 sittings, about 27 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 Divine Wings Of Tragedy?

42 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 23, 27, 43, 65, 74, 75 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 645 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Symphony X drum parts

EVERY SYMPHONY X CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →