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great escape (alternate ver.) · cinema staff

EXERCISE 28 OF 61
9-bar fill at bar 76
120 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play great escape (alternate ver.) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-10, toms through bars 11-13, snare through bars 14-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-41, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-o-x-o-x-o-x-|
SD |----x---------x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
great escape (alternate ver.) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-72 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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