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March of the Damned · Integrity

March of the Damned · Integrity
EXERCISE 23 OF 59
Fill at bar 34 (a small one)
65 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART N
PART B
PART L
PART N
PART U
PART L
PART Q
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART B
PART AI
11 groovesS9BLNU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play March of the Damned on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, ride through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-62, ride through bars 63-66, hi-hat through bars 67-75 and silence through bars 76-128, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 55-57 and 59-62 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
March of the Damned -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 30, 34, 38 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- L, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-32 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-44 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 36-59 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is March of the Damned?

139 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 Damned hard to play on drums?

53 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?

157 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 March of the Damned?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 30, 34, 38 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED