March Of The SFD (Drop C) · Six Ft Ditch

60 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 1:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:37
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 6 more places -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
MARCH OF THE SFD (DROP C) · BARS 44-45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 35 and 59.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 9 sections: 31 keep time, 3 are fills, 11 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-58.

PART A
PART S2
CHORUS
BREAK 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFAS2S7S8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is March Of The SFD (Drop C)?

148 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 SFD (Drop C) hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 SFD (Drop C)?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 35 and 59.

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