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Maria (2025) · Blondie

EXERCISE 4 OF 17
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 11-13)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBIGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maria (2025) on drums

162 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-138, hi-hat through bars 139-150 and snare through bars 151-162.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 29-47 and 49-54, and 7 more places -- 76.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Maria (2025) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 72-139 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 97-145 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Maria (2025)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Maria (2025) hard to play on drums?

41 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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