The March Enemy · PuDGE

147 bars, 10:18, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
10:18
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 96-100, 102-104 and 106, and 3 more places -- 15.1% 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
THE MARCH ENEMY · BARS 96-97
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 11 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 9 sections: 87 keep time, 17 are fills, 16 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-119.

PART C
PART J
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
BREAK 2
9 groovesAASJS9C+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The March Enemy?

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

Is The March Enemy hard to play on drums?

46 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 10:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The March Enemy?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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