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Escape · Aegirson

EXERCISE 13 OF 36
Join Part F to Part G (bars 48-50)
89 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART G
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Escape on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-89, ride through bars 90-102 and silence through bars 103-146.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Escape -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-61 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 66-90 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED