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ECHO · Starset

EXERCISE 5 OF 34
Groove E -- Part E
83 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART S2
PART A
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S10
OUTRO
9 groovesHAS12S10B+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ECHO on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68 and snare through bars 69-84, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|----------------|
ECHO -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 28-60 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 86-129 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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