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Semblance Of Liberty · Epica

EXERCISE 1 OF 89
Groove L -- Part L
0 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Semblance Of Liberty on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-16, hi-hat through bars 17-51, ride through bars 52-58, hi-hat through bars 59-103 and toms through bars 104-109, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x-----x--------x--x-----x--x-----------------|
Semblance Of Liberty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- L, S -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-26 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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