Arms Of Mary · Sutherland Brothers And Quiver

73 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-30, 40-49 and 55-64 -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
ARMS OF MARY · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 63 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arms Of Mary?

119 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 Arms Of Mary hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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