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Echoes · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 2 OF 109
Groove BN -- Part BN
36 / 303 BARS COVERED
0 / 109 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART BN
CHORUS 2
PART BN
PART BM
PART BN
PART BP
PART BR
PART BB
OUTRO
16 groovesBLBBBNIBP+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 20
LINK · 13
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Echoes on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
53 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
303
LENGTH
22:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-16, toms through bars 17-21, ride through bars 22-76 and toms through bars 77-78, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    102
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------x-----------------------------------|
HH |x-----x-----------x--x--x-----x-----x-----x--x--|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x-----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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 87 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 -- BL -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BN -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BP -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-44 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-284 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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