Mary On A Cross · Ghost

128 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 13 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MARY ON A CROSS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 42, 43, 44, 96, 111 and 112.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 111-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 6 sections: 108 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-41.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCKS5MFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mary On A Cross?

130 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 On A Cross hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 On A Cross?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 42, 43, 44, 96, 111 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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