Ephialtes · Akhlys

237 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 8:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
8:08
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88, 90 and 92, and 7 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
EPHIALTES · BAR 99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 23, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72 and 26 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 65-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

237 bars across 36 sections: 121 keep time, 33 are fills, 32 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-60.

PART I
PART O
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
26 groovesAGWONA+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ephialtes?

115 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 Ephialtes hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 8:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Ephialtes?

23 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 23, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED
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