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Ma Chérie · Malice Mizer

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove C -- Part C
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COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART C
PART O
PART V
CHORUS
PART H
PART C
OUTRO
10 groovesDCS1OAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ma Chérie on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-49, ride through bars 50-54, hi-hat through bars 55-56, ride through bars 57-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-63, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 32-33 and 35, and 14 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 51, 52, 77, 93, 156 and 157.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C, V -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Intro -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Intro and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Intro and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-78 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ma Chérie?

140 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 Ma Chérie hard to play on drums?

63 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ma Chérie?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 51, 52, 77, 93, 156 and 157.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED