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Thunder March · Marty Friedman

EXERCISE 5 OF 55
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
17 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AC
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHWBAEAL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thunder March on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-47, ride through bars 48-55 and snare through bars 56-63, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 19, and 4 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-x---x-x-------x-|
Thunder March -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 12, 23, 31, 37, 39 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-24 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part W -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thunder March?

90 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 Thunder March hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 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 Thunder March?

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 12, 23, 31, 37, 39 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED