Episode · Rivers Of Nihil

125 bars, 7:49, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
7:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 81, and 9 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 64 BPM
EPISODE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 52 and 25 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BARS 28-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 12 sections: 66 keep time, 31 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART U
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART S9
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesGXAOAI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Episode?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Episode 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 7:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Episode?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 52 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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