The Great Escape · Boys Like Girls

122 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 25-35 and 45-51, and 6 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE GREAT ESCAPE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 44, 56 and 8 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 14 sections: 84 keep time, 14 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-35.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART T
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHFPTJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Great Escape?

150 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 The Great Escape hard to play on drums?

57 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Great Escape?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 44, 56 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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