Mágica · Calcinha Preta

148 bars, 8:20, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
8:20
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 26-31 and 35-40, and 18 more places -- 67.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 70 BPM
MÁGICA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 58, 59, 76, 77, 78 and 7 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 3 sections: 115 keep time, 13 are fills, 9 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-57.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mágica?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mágica hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 8:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mágica?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 58, 59, 76, 77, 78 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →