Escape · Metallica

158 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18, and 32 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ESCAPE · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 17, 25 and 25 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 11 sections: 114 keep time, 32 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-97.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGJSBAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Escape?

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 hard to play on drums?

55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 17, 25 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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