Epic · Faith No More

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 13-14 and 21-22, and 6 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
EPIC · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 20, 23, 24, 32, 43 and 22 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 10 sections: 47 keep time and 28 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBAACJO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Epic?

87 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Epic hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Epic?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 20, 23, 24, 32, 43 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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