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Escape · Metallica

EXERCISE 39 OF 59
4-bar fill at bar 98
128 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Escape on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-117, toms through bars 118-125 and hi-hat through bars 126-158.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Escape -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- G, J -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-19 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-86 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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