Natural Mystic (MM) · Bob Marley

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-30, 36-65 and 71-80, and 1 more place -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NATURAL MYSTIC (MM) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 11 sections: 101 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-65.

PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
4 groovesCBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Natural Mystic (MM)?

120 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 (MM) hard to play on drums?

36 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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