ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Echolalia on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 115 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 139
LENGTH: 4:50
DIFFICULTY: 64/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-16, ride through bars 17-31, toms through bars 32-48, ride through bars 49-62 and snare through bars 63-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-18, 21-22 and 25-26, and 9 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17                       18
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------x-----x-----|------------------------|
RD |------x-----------------|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----|---x--x--------x-----x--|

Echolalia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 14, 15, 16, 24, 28 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F, AH -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 8-18 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Echolalia?

115 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 Echolalia hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 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 Echolalia?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 14, 15, 16, 24, 28 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED