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March Of The Cephalopods · Soften The Glare

March Of The Cephalopods · Soften The Glare
EXERCISE 23 OF 55
7-bar fill at bar 47
58 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play March Of The Cephalopods on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-16, toms through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-29 and toms through bars 30-37, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    105
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x------x-----|
March Of The Cephalopods -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- O, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-121 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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