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Escapes · Foreground Eclipse

EXERCISE 23 OF 67
Groove W
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PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART AF
PART AK
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJFAKMAF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Escapes on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-38, hi-hat through bars 39-44, snare through bars 45-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-104, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------X-----------------------X-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Escapes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 10, 36, 70, 87, 103 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-37 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Escapes?

151 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Escapes hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Escapes?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 10, 36, 70, 87, 103 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED