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Test For Echo · Rush

EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove L -- Chorus
0 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AE
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART Z
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLQZBF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Test For Echo on drums

194 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bars 1-19, toms through bars 20-27, ride through bars 28-51, hi-hat through bars 52-60, ride through bars 61-103 and toms through bars 104-115, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41, and 11 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x-x-xx--x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Test For Echo -- 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 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Test For Echo?

130 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 Test For Echo hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 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 Test For Echo?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED