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Buddha For Mary (updated) · 30 Seconds to Mars

EXERCISE 10 OF 57
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
65 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART B
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCGBP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Buddha For Mary (updated) on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-25, ride through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-39 and snare through bars 40-45, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 37-39 and 41, and 9 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |---x-----x----x-|
BD |x-----x-----xx--|
Buddha For Mary (updated) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 36, 40, 42, 45, 49, 53 and 13 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-37 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-100 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-104 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Buddha For Mary (updated)?

87 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 Buddha For Mary (updated) hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Buddha For Mary (updated)?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 36, 40, 42, 45, 49, 53 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED