← SONGS

Ephialtes · Akhlys

EXERCISE 1 OF 110
Groove AG -- Chorus
0 / 237 BARS COVERED
0 / 110 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
PART I
PART O
PART AC
CHORUS
PART N
PART A
CHORUS 2
26 groovesAGWONA+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 6
JOIN · 20
LINK · 4
SECTION · 17
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ephialtes on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
8:08
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-25, snare through bars 26-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-41, toms through bars 42-45 and ride through bars 46-50, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    99
    1...............2...............3...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Ephialtes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 86 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 -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-77 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 5 and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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