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Still Echoes · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 2 OF 73
Groove H -- Outro
18 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART P
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART V
PART AA
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLPIBV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Echoes on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50, snare through bars 51-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 63-65, and 3 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-x-x-x-x---xxx-x-x-x-|
Still Echoes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 24, 28 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 5-29 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Still Echoes?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Still Echoes hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Still Echoes?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 24, 28 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED