March Of The Cephalopods · Soften The Glare

141 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 102 and 104-106, and 1 more place -- 6.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MARCH OF THE CEPHALOPODS · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 59 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 13 sections: 47 keep time, 65 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-92.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART L
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesSAEOS2AV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is March Of The Cephalopods?

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 March Of The Cephalopods hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 March Of The Cephalopods?

8 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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