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Echoes · Undying

Echoes · Undying
EXERCISE 28 OF 45
Run B1 · Part B (bars 64-80)
142 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART M
PART B
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAFWBM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Echoes on drums

175 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64, ride through bars 65-66, snare through bars 67-68 and ride through bars 69-70, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-14 and 17-22, and 9 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- A, W -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-67 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-73 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-95 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 91-108 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Echoes?

195 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 Echoes hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED