Mary-Lou · Sonata Arctica

211 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 18-22 and 24-30, and 22 more places -- 78.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 190 BPM
MARY-LOU · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 15, 17, 23 and 15 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars: 177 keep time, 21 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 164-208.

OUTRO
1 grooveEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mary-Lou?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mary-Lou hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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-Lou?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 15, 17, 23 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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