Eclipse 2 · Brand Of Sacrifice

71 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18 -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
ECLIPSE 2 · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29 and 16 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 5 sections: 40 keep time, 22 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART A
CHORUS
PART AD
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesGAAJADS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eclipse 2?

112 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 Eclipse 2 hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 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 Eclipse 2?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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