Semblance Of Liberty · Epica

195 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 7 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SEMBLANCE OF LIBERTY · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 54 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 15 sections: 95 keep time, 61 are fills, 24 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-49.

PART B
PART L
PART B
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AK
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
9 groovesSLBAKAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Semblance Of Liberty?

140 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 Semblance Of Liberty hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Semblance Of Liberty?

25 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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