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Epoch of Affliction · Path to Hypocrisy

EXERCISE 22 OF 105
Fill at bar 38
101 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 105 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART K
PART S2
PART K
PART P
PART AX
PART BD
CHORUS 2
PART BQ
18 groovesBBPBDDK+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 8
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Epoch of Affliction on drums

192 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, toms through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-46, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15-16, and 5 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    147
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Epoch of Affliction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 21, 22, 26, 34, 38 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB, AX -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-193 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S4 and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-39 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Epoch of Affliction?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Epoch of Affliction hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Epoch of Affliction?

23 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 21, 22, 26, 34, 38 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED