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Magic And Mayhem · Amorphis

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove S -- Chorus
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0 / 53 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Magic And Mayhem on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, silence through bars 35-41 and kick and crashes through bars 42-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    111
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Magic And Mayhem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- S, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-55 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 2 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-86 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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