Mother Of Light · Epica

229 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 52-53, 55-56 and 65-66, and 11 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
MOTHER OF LIGHT · BARS 52-53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 57 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 23 sections: 107 keep time, 67 are fills, 16 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 140-153.

CHORUS
PART Y
PART Y
PART S15
PART AL
PART AW
PART BF
CHORUS 4
14 groovesEYALNS15+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mother Of Light?

165 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 Mother Of Light hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 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 Mother Of Light?

22 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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