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Epic III · Reeve Carney, Hadestown Original Broadway Company

Epic III · Reeve Carney, Hadestown Original Broadway Company
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 21 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Epic III on drums

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.

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
21/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, silence through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and ride through bars 47-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
BD |x-----------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Epic III -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, C, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 5-39 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 37-54 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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