Ides Of March · Silverstein

108 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-16 and 33-47 -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
IDES OF MARCH · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 11 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART O
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGOTI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ides Of March?

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 Ides Of March hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 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 Ides Of March?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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