Epitaph · Necrophagist

136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22 and 36 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 13 sections: 80 keep time and 42 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-100.

PART A
PART C
PART C
PART R
CHORUS
PART X
PART AD
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesTCXADF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Epitaph?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Epitaph hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 24 sittings, about 23 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 Epitaph?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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