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Mary · Black Bomb A

EXERCISE 16 OF 35
Join Chorus 3 to Part H (bars 41-43)
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0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART J
PART S9
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCS9EHJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mary on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-59, silence through bars 60-72, snare through bars 73-80, hi-hat through bars 81-88 and snare through bars 89-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 18 and 20, and 5 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-----x---------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----x-----x---x-----x-----|
Mary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 17, 19, 37, 39, 42 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-38 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-51 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mary?

105 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 Mary hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mary?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 17, 19, 37, 39, 42 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED