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Mother Of Light · Epica

EXERCISE 2 OF 98
Groove E -- Chorus
28 / 229 BARS COVERED
0 / 98 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mother Of Light on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-13, snare through bars 14-16, ride through bars 17-21, snare through bars 22-24 and ride through bars 25-32, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    52               53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---x---x-x-|x---x---x-x-x---|
Mother Of Light -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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