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Mama · Genesis

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Outro
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0 / 12 PASSED · 91 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mama on drums

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

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
6:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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