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Mama · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 23 OF 42
Run F2 · Part F (bars 51-68)
46 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mama on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-23, snare through bars 24-30, toms through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-35 and silence through bars 36-42, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Mama -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-49 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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