Escape From The City · Jun Senoue

74 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 20, 21 and 16 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 9 sections: 42 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-52.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDGKBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Escape From The City?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Escape From The City hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 From The City?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 20, 21 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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