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Echo Sonata (non-AI) · Erra

EXERCISE 12 OF 62
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 6-9)
46 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART E
CHORUS
PART S5
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART S10
OUTRO
10 groovesJEUAWS5+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Echo Sonata (non-AI) on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, snare through bars 17-46, silence through bars 47-57, hi-hat through bars 58-65 and snare through bars 66-81, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 9 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x---x-----x---|
Echo Sonata (non-AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- J, C (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-29 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 19-74 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S5 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Echo Sonata (non-AI)?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Echo Sonata (non-AI) hard to play on drums?

50 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Sonata (non-AI)?

15 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED