Sacred & Wild · EPICA

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 3 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SACRED & WILD · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 17, 20, 21, 25, 46 and 23 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 50-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 18 sections: 84 keep time, 29 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-41.

CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART W
PART AA
CHORUS 5
PART W
12 groovesCHWAAS2+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sacred & Wild?

120 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 Sacred & Wild hard to play on drums?

58 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sacred & Wild?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 17, 20, 21, 25, 46 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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