An Italian Magician Be Like · Project Dumb

86 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 1:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-19, 37-43 and 45-51, and 4 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 181 BPM
AN ITALIAN MAGICIAN BE LIKE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 26, 27, 28, 65, 66 and 7 more.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 65-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 83-86 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 5 sections: 63 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-59.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is An Italian Magician Be Like?

181 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is An Italian Magician Be Like hard to play on drums?

59 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in An Italian Magician Be Like?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 26, 27, 28, 65, 66 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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