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Ides Of March · Silverstein

EXERCISE 3 OF 41
Groove G -- Part G
31 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGOTI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ides Of March on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-64 and silence through bars 65-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|--x--x--x--x----|
Ides Of March -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-57 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-77 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-91 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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