Kingdom Of Heaven · Epica

480 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 17:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
480
LENGTH
17:31
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-62, 67-70 and 79-91, and 27 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN · BAR 50
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

55 fills to learn, played 117 times: bars 21, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40 and 111 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 63-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 16 TIMES

51 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

480 bars across 38 sections: 215 keep time, 117 are fills, 65 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-32.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
21 groovesGBAJARN+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kingdom Of Heaven?

110 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 Kingdom Of Heaven hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

480 bars, about 17:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 146 exercises over 37 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 Kingdom Of Heaven?

55 fills to learn, played 117 times: bars 21, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40 and 111 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 480 BARS ANALYSED
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