Epic III · Reeve Carney, Hadestown Original Broadway Company

128 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-18 -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
EPIC III · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 38.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 1 is a fill, 13 are stops and 67 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-34.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
BREAK 2
OUTRO
9 groovesS8CGBA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Epic III?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 III hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 III?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →