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Echoes · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 24 OF 74
Fill at bar 32 (a small one)
70 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART C
PART S
PART V
PART S
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesABCSJV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Echoes on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 57-63 and 101-107 -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-----x-----x-----|
Echoes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 24 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-65 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 43-49 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Echoes?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Echoes hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Echoes?

20 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 24 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED