Fiesta Pagana · Mägo de Oz

143 bars, 8:48, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
8:48
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14, and 16 more places -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 65 BPM
FIESTA PAGANA · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 27, 31, 39, 66, 78 and 2 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 16 sections: 97 keep time, 10 are fills, 15 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-136.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART E
PART Q
OUTRO
7 groovesBEQTS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fiesta Pagana?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fiesta Pagana hard to play on drums?

60 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?

143 bars, about 8:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fiesta Pagana?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 27, 31, 39, 66, 78 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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