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When All Is Lost · Syphony X

When All Is Lost · Syphony X
EXERCISE 1 OF 114
Groove O -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART E
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART S11
PART AZ
PART T
PART CY
OUTRO
20 groovesOTAACYAZ+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 32
LAND · 32
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When All Is Lost on drums

268 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 7:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
7:02
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-33, snare through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-43, snare through bars 44-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-67, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-32, 84-89 and 94-97, and 2 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28               29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x---------x-x-|----------------|
HH |----o---o-------|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|------x---x-----|
When All Is Lost -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

32 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 5, 12, 13, 20, 21, 27 and 70 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- O, AA -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CY -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part T -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is When All Is Lost?

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 When All Is Lost hard to play on drums?

51 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 7:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 When All Is Lost?

32 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 5, 12, 13, 20, 21, 27 and 70 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED