Ms. Martha · Curtis Mayfield

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-44, 46 and 54-60, and 3 more places -- 89.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
MS. MARTHA · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 5 sections: 97 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-46.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesACS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ms. Martha?

92 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 Ms. Martha hard to play on drums?

45 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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