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Echo Odd · Willowake

Echo Odd · Willowake
EXERCISE 7 OF 34
Join Part A to Break (bars 6-8)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, BREAK
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDPCS1A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Echo Odd on drums

119 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-56, ride through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 41 more places -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Echo Odd -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-29 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Echo Odd?

170 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 Odd hard to play on drums?

55 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Echo Odd?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED