Five Magics · Megadeth

224 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-27 and 43-57 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FIVE MAGICS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 58, 65, 155, 193, 206 and 3 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 155 · LANDS ON BAR 156
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 193 · LANDS ON BAR 194
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 20 sections: 173 keep time, 10 are fills, 13 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-98.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesJBAUP+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Five Magics?

180 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 Five Magics hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Five Magics?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 58, 65, 155, 193, 206 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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