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Escape · Muse

EXERCISE 6 OF 26
Groove N -- Outro 2
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0 / 26 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEANFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Escape on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 1-37, snare through bars 38-44, hi-hat through bars 45-51, snare through bars 52-54 and ride through bars 55-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19 -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 37, 41, 46 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A, E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Escape?

76 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?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Escape?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 37, 41, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED