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Echo Beach (original) · Martha And The Muffins

Echo Beach (original) · Martha And The Muffins
EXERCISE 16 OF 18
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 131-133)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Echo Beach (original) on drums

139 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, toms through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-61, toms through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18, 21-22 and 25-48, and 12 more places -- 70.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 49, 50 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 87-132 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Echo Beach (original)?

163 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 (original) hard to play on drums?

51 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?

139 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 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 (original)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 49, 50 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED