Epoch by The Living Tombstone · Epoch

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 20-21, and 8 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
EPOCH BY THE LIVING TOMBSTONE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 42, 46 and 62.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 9 sections: 44 keep time, 4 are fills, 8 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-30.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
6 groovesGES1S8S9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Epoch by The Living Tombstone?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Epoch by The Living Tombstone hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Epoch by The Living Tombstone?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 42, 46 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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