Return of the Mack · Mark Morrison

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 25-47 and 49-71, and 1 more place -- 96.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
RETURN OF THE MACK · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars: 88 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-88.

VERSE
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Return of the Mack?

96 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 Return of the Mack hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 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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