ECHO · Starset

144 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 29-35 and 37-43, and 8 more places -- 52.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ECHO · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 44, 68, 76, 84, 108 and 4 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 35 keep time, 10 are fills, 75 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-67.

PART S2
PART A
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S10
OUTRO
9 groovesHAS12S10B+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ECHO?

160 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 hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 44, 68, 76, 84, 108 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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