The Last Amazing Grays · Sonata Arctica

201 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-32, 57-74 and 101-106, and 4 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE LAST AMAZING GRAYS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 15, 40, 48, 90, 99 and 5 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 99-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 25 sections: 148 keep time, 11 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-74.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGHJAAA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Last Amazing Grays?

150 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 The Last Amazing Grays hard to play on drums?

62 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 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 Last Amazing Grays?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 15, 40, 48, 90, 99 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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