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Escapism · The Warning

EXERCISE 14 OF 34
Run B2 · Chorus 2 (bars 32-51)
61 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBCOKT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Escapism on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-59, snare through bars 60-67 and silence through bars 68-71, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20 and 32-49 -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Escapism -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 27, 31, 55, 59, 63, 66 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-67 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 61-80 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Escapism?

106 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 Escapism hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Escapism?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 27, 31, 55, 59, 63, 66 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED