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Fire Escape In The Sea · Sea Power

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove A -- Outro
0 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 107 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire Escape In The Sea on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
30/100

snare through bars 1-119 and ride through bars 120-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-19 and 21-25, and 9 more places -- 87% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-----x-x-xx|
BD |x-------x-------|
Fire Escape In The Sea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fire Escape In The Sea?

113 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 Fire Escape In The Sea hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED