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Deathmarch · 1349

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove A -- Outro
0 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 49 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deathmarch on drums

62 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 1:08 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:08
DIFFICULTY
43/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 18-20 and 22, and 6 more places -- 79% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Deathmarch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 15 and 39.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Deathmarch?

165 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Deathmarch hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Deathmarch?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 15 and 39.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED