Escape · Aegirson

146 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 5:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 26-33 and 58-65, and 1 more place -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ESCAPE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 89, 93 and 97.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 4 are fills, 7 are stops and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
BREAK
7 groovesBS11GFC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Escape?

160 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Escape hard to play on drums?

51 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Escape?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 89, 93 and 97.

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