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Magic Bus · The Who

EXERCISE 19 OF 26
Join Part G to Part H (bars 117-119)
141 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART H
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
PART G
PART H
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBHDEG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Magic Bus on drums

155 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-110, snare through bars 111-118, hi-hat through bars 119-126, snare through bars 127-140 and hi-hat through bars 141-147, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10-23 and 32-55, and 2 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    8
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Magic Bus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-86 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 83-98 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Magic Bus?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Magic Bus hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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