Marie-Stone · Éric Lapointe

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on ride, hi-hat and hi-hat foot.

RockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 53-59 and 73-79, and 1 more place -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
MARIE-STONE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 15 sections: 73 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEBDCH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Marie-Stone?

88 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 Marie-Stone hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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