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Magic · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 28 OF 59
Groove R -- Part R
66 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Magic on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-29, toms through bars 30-40, snare through bars 41-42 and ride through bars 43-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
T1 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Magic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-33 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-58 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part R -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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