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Pirates of the Caribbean · Epica

EXERCISE 1 OF 117
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART S6
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AO
PART C
PART S18
PART AY
22 groovesES1S18CS6+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 4
JOIN · 20
LINK · 7
SECTION · 18
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pirates of the Caribbean on drums

235 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 6:26 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-33, snare through bars 34-52, hi-hat through bars 53-56, silence through bars 57-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-77, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-45, 48-51 and 53-54, and 1 more place -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----x--x--|
Pirates of the Caribbean -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 20, 38, 47, 55, 64, 78 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 92 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO, AY -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-198 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-169 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S6 and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pirates of the Caribbean?

125 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Pirates of the Caribbean hard to play on drums?

62 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Pirates of the Caribbean?

24 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 20, 38, 47, 55, 64, 78 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED