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Magdalena · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 22 OF 54
Join Chorus to Part I (bars 39-41)
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0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Magdalena on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, toms through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72, ride through bars 73-80, hi-hat through bars 81-88 and toms through bars 89-96, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, A -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-36 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-52 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-82 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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