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Maggie May · Rod Stewart

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART S11
OUTRO
7 groovesDFS1KS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maggie May on drums

187 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-26, hi-hat through bars 27-145, silence through bars 146-164 and hi-hat through bars 165-187.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-34, 45-49 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 50, 58, 72, 74, 82, 96 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-40 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-73 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-187 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Maggie May?

132 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 Maggie May hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Maggie May?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 50, 58, 72, 74, 82, 96 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED