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The Last Crusade · Epica

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove F -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART B
PART S11
OUTRO
8 groovesFOBJS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last Crusade on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:09 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-43, ride through bars 44-56, hi-hat through bars 57-58 and ride through bars 59-61, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32 and 34-38, and 7 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Last Crusade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 27, 31, 39, 51, 52 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-31 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-53 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Last Crusade?

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 The Last Crusade hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 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 The Last Crusade?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 27, 31, 39, 51, 52 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED