Mama · Genesis

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 6:44 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
6:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-91 -- 65.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 82 BPM
MAMA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 138.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 138
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 2 sections: 135 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-105.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mama?

82 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 Mama hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 6:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Mama?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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