Mamma Mia · ABBA

111 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-21, and 16 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MAMMA MIA · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-111.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART S8
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFDS1S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mamma Mia?

140 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 Mamma Mia hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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