Soviet March · Red Alert 3

37 bars, 2:17, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
37
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8 and 10-12 -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 65 BPM
SOVIET MARCH · BARS 6-7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 9 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

37 bars across 5 sections: 15 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDMIBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soviet March?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Soviet March hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

37 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 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 Soviet March?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 37 BARS ANALYSED
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