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Heart-Magic Man · Heart

EXERCISE 3 OF 50
Fill at bar 58 (a small one)
68 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heart-Magic Man on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, snare through bars 65-68, hi-hat through bars 69-99, kick and crashes through bars 100-107, hi-hat through bars 108-109 and snare through bars 110-113, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x----x|
Heart-Magic Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-35 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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