La magia · Little Jesus

151 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31, 33-63 and 65-80, and 3 more places -- 85.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 157 BPM
LA MAGIA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 64.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 4 sections: 139 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-150.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
3 groovesADS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La magia?

157 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 La magia hard to play on drums?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in La magia?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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