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Epidemic · Slayer

EXERCISE 8 OF 44
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 6-8)
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0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART C
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFCVS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Epidemic on drums

114 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and ride through bars 51-75, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 11 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Epidemic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 20, 21, 22 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-19 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 15-27 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-66 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-80 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Epidemic?

205 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 Epidemic hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Epidemic?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 20, 21, 22 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED