March Of Time · Helloween

186 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-62, 64-70 and 99-115, and 4 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
MARCH OF TIME · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 41 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 10 sections: 111 keep time, 48 are fills, 16 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-141.

PART K
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART K
OUTRO
6 groovesXMKAGAL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is March Of Time?

150 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 Time hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Time?

18 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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