Material Girl · Madonna

129 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-32, and 7 more places -- 91.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 137 BPM
MATERIAL GIRL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars: 127 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-110.

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

Questions

What BPM is Material Girl?

137 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 Material Girl hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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