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My Pledge Of Allegiance · After Forever

EXERCISE 3 OF 57
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
32 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S12
PART B
PART F
PART O
10 groovesJOBFS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Pledge Of Allegiance on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-65, snare through bars 66-67, hi-hat through bars 68-69, snare through bars 70-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-76, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 50-52, and 1 more place -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------x---------------|
My Pledge Of Allegiance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 49, 53 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-18 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-26 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Pledge Of Allegiance?

90 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 My Pledge Of Allegiance hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 My Pledge Of Allegiance?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 49, 53 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED