Ecorche · Crowquill

90 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-57 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ECORCHE · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 25, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 14 sections: 47 keep time, 15 are fills, 13 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-59.

PART A
PART C
PART L
CHORUS
PART AD
OUTRO 2
14 groovesATQADCL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ecorche?

130 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 Ecorche hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Ecorche?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 25, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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