JORGE RIVERA-HERRANS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Warrior of the Mind (Epic the Musical)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 18-33 and 70-77, and 2 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
36/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 120 BPM
WARRIOR OF THE MIND (EPIC THE MUSICAL) · BAR 11

It is played on the kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 36 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 90 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

Tempo goes 90, 105 and 120 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Warrior of the Mind (Epic the Musical) use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 120 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 41.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 10-14, 18-33, 70-77 and 94-96, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Warrior of the Mind (Epic the Musical) hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED