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Fiesta Pagana · Mägo de Oz

EXERCISE 21 OF 33
Run S71 · Part S7 (bars 59-62)
105 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S7
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S7
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fiesta Pagana on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
8:48
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-19, ride through bars 20-31, hi-hat through bars 32-35, ride through bars 36-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-58, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Fiesta Pagana -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-40 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-112 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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