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Echo Beach · Martha And The Muffins

Echo Beach · Martha And The Muffins
EXERCISE 12 OF 16
Groove H
119 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Echo Beach on drums

144 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-55, toms through bars 56-57, hi-hat through bars 58-66, toms through bars 67-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-19, 26-55 and 58-65, and 4 more places -- 83.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Echo Beach -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 57 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Echo Beach?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Echo Beach hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Echo Beach?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 57 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED