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The March Enemy · PuDGE

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove AA -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The March Enemy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
10:18
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-12, toms through bars 13-33, hi-hat through bars 34-37, snare through bars 38-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-127, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    96                           97
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
CC |--------x---------------x---|------------x---------------|
HH |o---o-------o---o---o-------|o---o---o-------o---o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---|------------x---xxxx--------|
T1 |----------------------------|------------------------xx--|
T2 |----------------------------|--------------------------xx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The March Enemy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- AA, S -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-33 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-56 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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