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When Mercia Withered into the Severn · Rosasharin

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove V -- Part V (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When Mercia Withered into the Severn on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 3-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-31 and toms through bars 32-33, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37                               38
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-----xx|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----------|x-x---x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x-|
When Mercia Withered into the Severn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-40 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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