Marmalade · System of a Down

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 27 and 31-34, and 2 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
MARMALADE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 10, 42, 47, 48, 49 and 5 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 47-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 12 sections: 44 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-18.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Marmalade?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Marmalade hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Marmalade?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 10, 42, 47, 48, 49 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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