Dear Maria, Count Me In · All Time Low

139 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 26 and 28, and 9 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
DEAR MARIA, COUNT ME IN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 25, 31, 33, 57, 73 and 3 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 10 sections: 79 keep time, 9 are fills, 35 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-105.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBALDS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear Maria, Count Me In?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dear Maria, Count Me In hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dear Maria, Count Me In?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 25, 31, 33, 57, 73 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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