great escape (alternate ver.) · cinema staff

194 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30, 32-37 and 69-75 -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
GREAT ESCAPE (ALTERNATE VER.) · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 31, 39, 42, 43, 46 and 31 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 17 sections: 102 keep time, 37 are fills, 32 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-21.

PART F
PART G
PART K
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AG
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesQGKFO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is great escape (alternate ver.)?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is great escape (alternate ver.) hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 great escape (alternate ver.)?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 31, 39, 42, 43, 46 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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