An Epilogue to Infinity V2 · Obscura

248 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 204-209, 212-213 and 216-217, and 1 more place -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
AN EPILOGUE TO INFINITY V2 · BAR 205
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 45 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 26-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 27 sections: 120 keep time, 51 are fills, 34 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 216-235.

PART J
PART AG
PART AH
PART AR
PART BG
CHORUS
20 groovesCRARAHJL+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is An Epilogue to Infinity V2?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is An Epilogue to Infinity V2 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 28 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in An Epilogue to Infinity V2?

22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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