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March Of Time · Helloween

EXERCISE 2 OF 62
Groove M -- Part M (a two-bar phrase)
60 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play March Of Time on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, silence through bars 28-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46, ride through bars 47-52 and toms through bars 53-55, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
March Of Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- X -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and Part S2 -- 9 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-56 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-118 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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