Magic · Avenged Sevenfold

119 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-16, and 1 more place -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MAGIC · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 21, 38, 42, 50, 54 and 4 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 18 sections: 89 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART N
PART R
PART T
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO
13 groovesBNHFR+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Magic?

130 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 hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 21, 38, 42, 50, 54 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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