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Maria · Yellowed Wallpaper

Maria · Yellowed Wallpaper
EXERCISE 14 OF 96
Join Part D to Part I (bars 26-28)
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0 / 96 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART I
PART A
PART D
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maria on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
11:21
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-63, snare through bars 64-71, hi-hat through bars 72-88 and ride through bars 89-106, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    141
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
Maria -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- BX, A -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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