Born To Be Epic · Equilibrium

147 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:55 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
147
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-47, 49-51 and 83-93, and 1 more place -- 20.4% 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
BORN TO BE EPIC · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 36, 48, 52, 62, 70 and 7 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 18 sections: 86 keep time, 13 are fills and 30 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART X
11 groovesJDFRU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born To Be Epic?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Born To Be Epic hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Born To Be Epic?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 36, 48, 52, 62, 70 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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