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Dear Maria, Count Me In · All Time Low

EXERCISE 9 OF 38
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 16-18)
60 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear Maria, Count Me In on drums

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

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-57, toms through bars 58-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Dear Maria, Count Me In -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B, L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-27 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-70 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-91 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-114 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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