Magic And Mayhem · Amorphis

154 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75, 77 and 79, and 9 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
MAGIC AND MAYHEM · BAR 111
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 45, 46 and 6 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 13 sections: 109 keep time, 14 are fills, 15 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-153.

PART B
PART D
PART B
PART S4
PART K
PART Q
CHORUS
PART V
VERSE
OUTRO
11 groovesSBKQS4+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Magic And Mayhem?

125 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 Magic And Mayhem hard to play on drums?

53 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 Magic And Mayhem?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 45, 46 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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