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Five Magics · Megadeth

EXERCISE 3 OF 62
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART S10
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Five Magics on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, ride through bars 59-68, hi-hat through bars 69-106 and ride through bars 107-130, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
BD |x-----x---------|
Five Magics -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-66 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part S10 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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