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The Yankee Division March · Kanonenfieber

EXERCISE 3 OF 72
Groove R -- Part R
36 / 245 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S4, PART U, PART R
PART S2
CHORUS
PART S4
PART U
PART R
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART S15
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKS15S2RU+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Yankee Division March on drums

245 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 8:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
8:01
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48 and ride through bars 49-67, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-39, 45-47 and 117-119, and 3 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37               38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|----------------|
HH |-----o-o-o-o-o-o|-o-o-o-o-o-o----|
SD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
T1 |----------------|------------x---|
FT |x---------------|------------x---|
BD |X----x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-x-xX---|
The Yankee Division March -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 37, 38 and 70 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 12-140 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part S4 and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Yankee Division March?

121 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Yankee Division March hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 8:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 The Yankee Division March?

15 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 37, 38 and 70 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED