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

EXERCISE 4 OF 19
Join Part A to Part S2 (bars 7-9)
31 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART S2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play March Of The SFD (Drop C) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:37
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-15, snare through bars 16-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-36, silence through bars 37-43 and snare through bars 44-60.

The beat

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.

    44               45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x---x--xx-xxx-|
March Of The SFD (Drop C) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- F, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-17 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-37 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED