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Epoch by The Living Tombstone · Epoch

EXERCISE 6 OF 18
Part E into Chorus with the record (bars 9-16)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Epoch by The Living Tombstone on drums

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

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-34 and snare through bars 35-36, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Epoch by The Living Tombstone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-38 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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