Mama Let Him Play · Jerry Doucette

151 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55-60, 85-90 and 145-148 -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
MAMA LET HIM PLAY · BARS 55-56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 13 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 18 sections: 75 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-121.

BREAK 4
PART I
PART P
CHORUS
PART I
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART S14
PART U
OUTRO
12 groovesRPS6UI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mama Let Him Play?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Let Him Play hard to play on drums?

64 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mama Let Him Play?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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