Natural Mystic · Bob Marley & The Wailers

113 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 27-28 and 31-35, and 10 more places -- 61.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 133 BPM
NATURAL MYSTIC · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 111, 112 and 113.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 111-113 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 97 keep time, 3 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-110.

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

Questions

What BPM is Natural Mystic?

133 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 Natural Mystic hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Natural Mystic?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 111, 112 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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