Marca-Marca · Acophre

59 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 1:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 52-54, and 1 more place -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
MARCA-MARCA · BARS 18-19
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 26, 27, 51 and 1 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 59
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 7 sections: 43 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHBSVE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Marca-Marca?

134 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 Marca-Marca hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Marca-Marca?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 26, 27, 51 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED
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