Mama Said · Metallica

79 bars, 4:35, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 7, 9, 10, 27, 29, 30 and 29 more.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BARS 29-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BARS 55-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 9 sections: 31 keep time, 35 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEJWAMS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mama Said?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mama Said hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Said?

8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 7, 9, 10, 27, 29, 30 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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