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Mary On A Cross · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCKS5MFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mary On A Cross on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-42, toms through bars 43-44, ride through bars 45-84, toms through bars 85-89 and silence through bars 90-96, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|
Mary On A Cross -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-59 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 83-97 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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