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Hey Mario · Bowling For Soup

EXERCISE 32 OF 35
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 63-65)
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey Mario on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, snare through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-74.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x-----x-x--x--|
Hey Mario -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- E, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-12 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-41 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-46 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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