Hey Mario · Bowling For Soup

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 33-39 and 45, and 2 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HEY MARIO · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 40, 57 and 58.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 9 sections: 60 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-22.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEAMJCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Mario?

100 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 Hey Mario hard to play on drums?

51 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Hey Mario?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 40, 57 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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