Maria · Yellowed Wallpaper

194 bars, 11:21, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
11:21
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 141-152, 154-156 and 158, and 9 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
MARIA · BAR 141
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 43, 59, 63, 67, 71, 75 and 33 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 16 sections: 112 keep time, 39 are fills, 20 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

PART A
PART I
PART AA
PART AF
PART AM
PART AR
PART BJ
OUTRO
14 groovesBXAAFIAR+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maria?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Maria hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 11:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Maria?

22 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 43, 59, 63, 67, 71, 75 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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