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Ecorche · Crowquill

EXERCISE 14 OF 60
Groove C -- Part C
31 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ecorche on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
70/100

ride through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-25, hi-hat through bars 26-30, snare through bars 31-39, toms through bars 40-43 and snare through bars 44-60, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    49                                                               50
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-----------------------------------------------|----------------x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x---x---x---x---x---------------x-------x-------|x---x---x---x---x---------------x---x---x---x---x---------------|
Ecorche -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-18 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 1-11 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 17-26 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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