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My maria · Brooks And Dunn

EXERCISE 28 OF 28
Play the whole song with the record
105 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 110 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART C
PART J
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKEJCB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My maria on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-40, snare through bars 41-45, hi-hat through bars 46-55, snare through bars 56-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-100, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-55, 61-70 and 76-100 -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
My maria -- 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 27 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 -- K, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-41 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-54 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-74 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 99-106 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is My maria?

125 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 My maria hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED