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Born To Be Epic · Equilibrium

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove J -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born To Be Epic on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-35, toms through bars 36-52, snare through bars 53-81, toms through bars 82-98, kick and crashes through bars 99-106 and snare through bars 107-122, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
SD |------------------------X-----------------------|
FT |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |X-----------------------------------------------|
Born To Be Epic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- J, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-20 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-58 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-100 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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