Marianne · Fontaines D.C.

148 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-55, 60-84 and 101-148 -- 85.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 164 BPM
MARIANNE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 7 sections: 138 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-55.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
4 groovesBAS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Marianne?

164 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 Marianne hard to play on drums?

26 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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