Mercia · Thornhill

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 5 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
MERCIA · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 49, 53, 65 and 17 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 16 sections: 58 keep time, 23 are fills, 4 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-20.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART S6
PART V
PART AB
BREAK 3
CHORUS 2
15 groovesJABCS1S5+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mercia?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Mercia hard to play on drums?

63 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mercia?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 49, 53, 65 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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