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Epic · Faith No More

EXERCISE 23 OF 58
Groove J -- Part J
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CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART O
PART Q
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBAACJO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Epic on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-27 and toms through bars 28-32, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-xx----|
Epic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-40 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 28-44 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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