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Epstein Island · Disliker

Epstein Island · Disliker
EXERCISE 4 OF 39
Groove AE -- Part AE
40 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AE
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART Q
PART T
PART V
PART AE
OUTRO
8 groovesCAEHVQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Epstein Island on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-37, hi-hat through bars 38-47, snare through bars 48-55, hi-hat through bars 56-72 and snare through bars 73-74, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 17 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----------------------|
Epstein Island -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Epstein Island?

137 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 Epstein Island hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Epstein Island?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED