Mercy Mercy Me (The ecology) · Marving Gaye

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 2:48 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19, 23-47 and 49-63 -- 90.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 93 BPM
MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars: 64 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-64.

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

Questions

What BPM is Mercy Mercy Me (The ecology)?

93 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 Mercy Mercy Me (The ecology) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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