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Marquee Moon · Television

Marquee Moon · Television
EXERCISE 1 OF 117
Groove BF -- Chorus
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0 / 117 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
PART F
PART AI
PART AR
CHORUS
PART BM
20 groovesBFARRCAI+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 6
JOIN · 17
LINK · 7
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Marquee Moon on drums

313 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 10:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
313
LENGTH
10:34
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-33, snare through bars 34-37, toms through bars 38-42, snare through bars 43-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-77, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 190-196, 198-199 and 206-207, and 4 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Marquee Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 12, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 92 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 -- BF, T -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-20 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-73 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-95 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-169 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-67 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Marquee Moon?

118 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 Marquee Moon hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

313 bars, about 10:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Marquee Moon?

24 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 12, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 313 BARS ANALYSED