Ebola · Providence

82 bars at 219 BPM -- fast, and 1:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
219 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-23 and 34-36, and 1 more place -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 219 BPM
EBOLA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 24, 25, 33, 37, 49 and 5 more.

LOOP · 219 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 219 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 219 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 219 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 10 sections: 48 keep time, 11 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJBFRM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ebola?

219 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ebola hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ebola?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 24, 25, 33, 37, 49 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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