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The Great Escape · Boys Like Girls

The Great Escape · Boys Like Girls
EXERCISE 22 OF 43
Groove N -- Outro
95 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART T
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHFPTJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Great Escape on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-35, hi-hat through bars 36-52 and snare through bars 53-67, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
The Great Escape -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-16 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-57 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-111 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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