When Mercia Withered into the Severn · Rosasharin

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-43 and 63-69 -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WHEN MERCIA WITHERED INTO THE SEVERN · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 16, 27, 28, 31, 32 and 10 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 31-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 10 sections: 39 keep time, 16 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-43.

PART F
PART C
PART M
CHORUS
PART V
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPVCFM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When Mercia Withered into the Severn?

80 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 When Mercia Withered into the Severn hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 When Mercia Withered into the Severn?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 16, 27, 28, 31, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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