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March Of The Fire Ants · Mastodon

EXERCISE 22 OF 112
Run R1 · Part R (bars 44-49)
51 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 112 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART R
CHORUS 4
PART CG
22 groovesLWAACGF+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play March Of The Fire Ants on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14 and silence through bars 15-17, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 38 and 40, and 7 more places -- 5.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |----------------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-----------g-------------------|
BD |x---------------x-----------x-x-----------------x-------x-------|
March Of The Fire Ants -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 37, 39, 41, 45, 52, 60 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- CE -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-36 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is March Of The Fire Ants?

134 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Fire Ants hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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 Fire Ants?

29 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 37, 39, 41, 45, 52, 60 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED