Mario Kart 8 Main Theme · Mario Kart

98 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-31, 33-35 and 74-78, and 1 more place -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
MARIO KART 8 MAIN THEME · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13 and 34 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time and 40 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-48.

PART D
PART E
PART G
PART T
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesXTGEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mario Kart 8 Main Theme?

137 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 Mario Kart 8 Main Theme hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Mario Kart 8 Main Theme?

7 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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