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An Italian Magician Be Like · Project Dumb

EXERCISE 18 OF 21
Run D2 · Outro (bars 61-77)
74 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play An Italian Magician Be Like on drums

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

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

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
59/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x-----|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|--x-------x-----|
An Italian Magician Be Like -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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