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Episode · Rivers Of Nihil

EXERCISE 18 OF 59
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 24-26)
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0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Episode on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
7:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-32, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-x-------------x-|
Episode -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- G, A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-26 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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