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marathons · Sorry Ghost
EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART B
VERSE
PART S4
CHORUS
PART B
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
7 groovesFCBJS4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play marathons on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-22, silence through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and snare through bars 38-45, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 55-57, and 3 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxx--xo-xxo-xxxx|
SD |---xx-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x----x|
marathons -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 54, 75 and 87.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-55 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse 2 and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is marathons?

119 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 marathons hard to play on drums?

63 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 marathons?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 54, 75 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED