Mama Kin · Aerosmith

172 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-26, 39-41 and 45-46, and 12 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
MAMA KIN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 74, 96, 97, 120 and 121.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 120-121 · LANDS ON BAR 122 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 17 sections: 97 keep time, 7 are fills, 39 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-73.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGJIRC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mama Kin?

142 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 Kin hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mama Kin?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 74, 96, 97, 120 and 121.

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