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Marionette · Boowy

Marionette · Boowy
EXERCISE 7 OF 31
Join Part B to Part D (bars 5-7)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHMBDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Marionette on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 3-42, toms through bars 43-44, snare through bars 45-62, hi-hat through bars 63-66, snare through bars 67-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-108, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Marionette -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H, M -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-48 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-81 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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