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Sacred & Wild · EPICA

EXERCISE 9 OF 63
Groove W -- Part W
58 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sacred & Wild on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-19 and toms through bars 20-21, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--------------x-----x-----------x--x--|
Sacred & Wild -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 10-33 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-74 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and the Break 4 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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