Marionette · Boowy

152 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 29-35, and 6 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
MARIONETTE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 20, 28 and 8 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 10 sections: 125 keep time, 14 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-152.

CHORUS
PART M
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHMBDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Marionette?

156 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 Marionette hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Marionette?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 20, 28 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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