Design Your Universe (full) · Epica

260 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
8:06
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-87, 125-131 and 133-135, and 17 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DESIGN YOUR UNIVERSE (FULL) · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 32, 36, 56, 72, 88, 89 and 38 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

260 bars across 19 sections: 124 keep time, 44 are fills, 56 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-55.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPNAIL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Design Your Universe (full)?

120 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 Design Your Universe (full) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

260 bars, about 8:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 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 Design Your Universe (full)?

25 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 32, 36, 56, 72, 88, 89 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 260 BARS ANALYSED
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