Maria Maria · Santana

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:17 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-21 and 23-33, and 7 more places -- 91.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
MARIA MARIA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars: 105 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-105.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maria Maria?

98 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 Maria hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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