Mare Mortis · Appleseed Cast

105 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44 and 65-88 -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MARE MORTIS · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 8 sections: 94 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-105.

PART A
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFBDAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mare Mortis?

130 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 Mare Mortis hard to play on drums?

55 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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