ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mama Let Him Play on drums

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.

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

TEMPO: 135 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 151
LENGTH: 4:24
DIFFICULTY: 64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-11, silence through bars 12-29, toms through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-60 and toms through bars 61-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    55                                               56
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------x-----|------------------x-----------------------x-----|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|------x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |------x-----------------x-----x-----------x-----|x--------x--------x-----------x-----------x-----|

Mama Let Him Play -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 1-32 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through Part I and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part I and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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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