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Design Your Universe (full) · Epica

EXERCISE 3 OF 92
Groove N -- Part N
106 / 260 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
PART A
PART I
PART N
CHORUS
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPNAIL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Design Your Universe (full) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
8:06
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-64, ride through bars 65-72, hi-hat through bars 73-116, ride through bars 117-124 and hi-hat through bars 125-140, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    73
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Design Your Universe (full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- P, I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-65 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-96 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-120 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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