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Maggots for Brains · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 6 OF 16
Groove F
110 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
VERSE
3 groovesCIHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maggots for Brains on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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