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Mary-Lou · Sonata Arctica

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove E -- Outro
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OUTRO
1 grooveEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mary-Lou on drums

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.

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

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

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-143, kick and crashes through bars 144-151 and toms through bars 152-153, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Mary-Lou -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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