Heart-Magic Man · Heart

142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 13-14, and 21 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
HEART-MAGIC MAN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 33, 34, 58, 99, 107 and 7 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 15 sections: 102 keep time, 15 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-98.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCHGAAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heart-Magic Man?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Heart-Magic Man hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Heart-Magic Man?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 33, 34, 58, 99, 107 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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