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Sensorium · Epica

EXERCISE 8 OF 74
Groove G -- Part G
57 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
PART I
PART T
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AA
PART AE
PART B
OUTRO
13 groovesQBIAEAA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sensorium on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
77/100

ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-40, hi-hat through bars 41-45, ride through bars 46-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16 and 134-140 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Sensorium -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 21, 33, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 17 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-43 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 20-35 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sensorium?

132 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 Sensorium hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Sensorium?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 21, 33, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED