Maggots for Brains · Olivia Rodrigo

128 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-27, 29-43 and 46-59, and 6 more places -- 78.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 164 BPM
MAGGOTS FOR BRAINS · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 44, 72 and 104.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 3 sections: 123 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-43.

CHORUS
VERSE
3 groovesCIHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maggots for Brains?

164 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 Maggots for Brains 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Maggots for Brains?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 44, 72 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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