ESP Ion Age · Portal

113 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 58-61 and 66-68, and 1 more place -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
ESP ION AGE · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 13, 14, 15 and 21 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 14 sections: 71 keep time, 27 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-97.

PART B
PART G
PART J
PART T
PART X
CHORUS
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesACAMMAOX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ESP Ion Age?

132 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 ESP Ion Age hard to play on drums?

89 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?

113 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 ESP Ion Age?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 13, 14, 15 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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