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Escapism · Obliviscent

Escapism · Obliviscent
EXERCISE 1 OF 90
Groove AY -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 209 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AW, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S
PART X
PART AD
PART AM
PART AN
PART AP
PART AW
OUTRO
17 groovesAAMAYSAN+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Escapism on drums

209 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100

ride through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-60, hi-hat through bars 61-140 and ride through bars 141-152, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 177-179, 181-183 and 185-187, and 3 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    177                              178
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------------------x---|----x-------------------x-------|
Escapism -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 59, 60 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- AY, AM -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-69 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S4 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Escapism?

140 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 Escapism hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Escapism?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 59, 60 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED