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Me and Mary Jane · Black Stone Cherry

EXERCISE 30 OF 81
Fill at bar 69 (a small one)
115 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART T
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AJ
9 groovesMCAJTAT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Me and Mary Jane on drums

169 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-43, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 16, and 15 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----xx--x---x-|
Me and Mary Jane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 21, 25, 33 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-79 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-78 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Me and Mary Jane?

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

Is Me and Mary Jane hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Me and Mary Jane?

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 21, 25, 33 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED