Marathon · Rush

254 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 6:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-63, 65-70 and 99-105, and 11 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
MARATHON · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 16, 28, 55, 56, 64, 71 and 55 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

254 bars across 15 sections: 152 keep time, 61 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-129.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesOAKAPBI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Marathon?

158 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Marathon hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Marathon?

25 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 16, 28, 55, 56, 64, 71 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED
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