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The March · Eye Of The Enemy

The March · Eye Of The Enemy
EXERCISE 12 OF 42
Run F1 · Part F (bars 18-21)
60 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBTCRN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The March on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-31, hi-hat through bars 32-33 and snare through bars 34-41, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 22-24 and 32, and 6 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The March -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 25, 41, 45 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-22 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The March?

120 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 The March hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 25, 41, 45 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED