Maria Magdalena · Sandra

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 44 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
MARIA MAGDALENA · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 28, 48 and 1 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 90 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-101.

VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
2 groovesCDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maria Magdalena?

105 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 Maria Magdalena hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Maria Magdalena?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 28, 48 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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