Sancta Terra · Epica

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:35 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 28, and 17 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SANCTA TERRA · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 27, 44 and 29 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 24-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 44-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 8 sections: 65 keep time, 35 are fills, 11 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART S4
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBRUNS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sancta Terra?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sancta Terra hard to play on drums?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sancta Terra?

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 27, 44 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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