Hello Mary Lou · Ricky Nelson

110 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-109 -- 99.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 200 BPM
HELLO MARY LOU · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 110.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 110
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars: 109 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-109.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hello Mary Lou?

200 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 Hello Mary Lou hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Hello Mary Lou?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 110.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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