Magdalena · A Perfect Circle

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 49-51, and 3 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
MAGDALENA · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 32, 36, 40 and 15 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 9 sections: 67 keep time, 21 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFADIP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Magdalena?

103 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 Magdalena hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Magdalena?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 32, 36, 40 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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