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Dear Maria, Count Me In (Live) · All Time Low

EXERCISE 6 OF 42
Fill at bar 16
73 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART S
CHORUS 4
9 groovesBASMD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear Maria, Count Me In (Live) on drums

143 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-56, toms through bars 57-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25 and 27, and 9 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Dear Maria, Count Me In (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 128, 129, 131 and 140.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, S -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-25 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-73 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-111 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dear Maria, Count Me In (Live)?

181 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 (Live) hard to play on drums?

45 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?

143 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dear Maria, Count Me In (Live)?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 128, 129, 131 and 140.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED