Echoes · Pink Floyd

303 bars, 22:52, at 53 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
53 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
303
LENGTH
22:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-103, 105 and 107-112, and 8 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 53 BPM
ECHOES · BAR 102
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18 and 69 more.

LOOP · 53 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 53 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 53 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 53 BPM
BARS 35-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

303 bars across 25 sections: 180 keep time, 75 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-115.

PART A
CHORUS
PART BP
PART BR
PART BB
OUTRO
16 groovesBLBBBNIBP+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Echoes?

53 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Echoes hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

303 bars, about 22:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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 Echoes?

21 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 303 BARS ANALYSED
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