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Mary Had A Little Lamb · Stevie Ray Vaughan

EXERCISE 14 OF 52
Groove J -- Part J
141 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART J
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART J
PART K
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDKNJX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mary Had A Little Lamb on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-33, ride through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-57, snare through bars 58-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-80, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-40, 42-56 and 58-60, and 4 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Mary Had A Little Lamb -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 17, 32, 33, 41, 57 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- K, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-82 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 30-90 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-101 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mary Had A Little Lamb?

128 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 Had A Little Lamb hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Mary Had A Little Lamb?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 17, 32, 33, 41, 57 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED