Mary · Alex G

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 26-28 and 30-31, and 4 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
MARY · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 42 and 72.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 10 sections: 58 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART E
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBELNS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mary?

106 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 Mary hard to play on drums?

54 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?

84 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Mary?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 42 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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