Mama · My Chemical Romance

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-30, 51-56 and 59-61, and 1 more place -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
MAMA · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 32, 49, 50, 57, 58 and 11 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 65-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 10 sections: 46 keep time, 17 are fills, 40 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-23.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
PART S4
PART K
PART F
PART Q
PART T
BREAK
OUTRO
9 groovesABFS1TC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mama?

105 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?

52 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mama?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 32, 49, 50, 57, 58 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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