Eclipse · Kaboom

166 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 61-76, and 2 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
ECLIPSE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 25, 29, 34 and 15 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 15 sections: 105 keep time, 21 are fills, 13 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-49.

CHORUS
PART E
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesAPZEAE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eclipse?

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

Is Eclipse hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 25, 29, 34 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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