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Crimson Bow and Arrow · Epica

EXERCISE 12 OF 73
Groove AA -- Part AA
27 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AA
PART S3
CHORUS
PART W
PART AA
PART AF
PART S11
PART AA
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHAAAFS11W+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crimson Bow and Arrow on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-15, hi-hat through bars 16-18, toms through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-62 and ride through bars 63-67, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 41-44, and 4 more places -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Crimson Bow and Arrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 67 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part W and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-44 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crimson Bow and Arrow?

87 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 Crimson Bow and Arrow hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Crimson Bow and Arrow?

22 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED