Epic Of War · Annihilator

262 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 5:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
262
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 33-48 and 65-79, and 2 more places -- 36.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 195 BPM
EPIC OF WAR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 80, 166 and 230.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 166 · LANDS ON BAR 167
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

262 bars across 13 sections: 248 keep time, 3 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-165.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART H
PART I
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesAIBHS12+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Epic Of War?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Epic Of War hard to play on drums?

62 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

262 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Of War?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 80, 166 and 230.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 262 BARS ANALYSED
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