Marianne (Live) · Fontaines DC

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33 and 57-80 -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
MARIANNE (LIVE) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 48 and 56.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 6 sections: 67 keep time, 3 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-80.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Marianne (Live)?

85 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 Marianne (Live) hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Marianne (Live)?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 48 and 56.

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