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Ms. Martha · Curtis Mayfield

Ms. Martha · Curtis Mayfield
EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 9 PASSED · 89 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesACS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ms. Martha on drums

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

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
45/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x--x--x-|
Ms. Martha -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Bars 45-54 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED