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Independence Day · Martina Mcbride

Independence Day · Martina Mcbride
EXERCISE 16 OF 30
Fill at bar 58 (a small one)
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0 / 30 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCAHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Independence Day on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 25 and 27, and 17 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Independence Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 39, 40, 58, 66, 74 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-49 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 76-96 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Independence Day?

120 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 Independence Day hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Independence Day?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 39, 40, 58, 66, 74 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED