Great Escape · Cinema Staff

157 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 20-25, and 1 more place -- 12.3% 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 · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 27, 30, 31, 34, 37 and 27 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 13 sections: 85 keep time, 36 are fills, 20 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART B
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART D
PART V
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRJDADS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Great Escape?

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 hard to play on drums?

64 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Great Escape?

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 27, 30, 31, 34, 37 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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