Magical Shadows of a Tragic Past · Mutiilation

242 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
7:11
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-70, 72-74 and 76-78, and 12 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MAGICAL SHADOWS OF A TRAGIC PAST · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 46, 47, 66, 67, 87 and 10 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

242 bars across 28 sections: 132 keep time, 18 are fills, 20 are stops and 61 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-86.

PART G
CHORUS
PART G
BREAK 4
PART G
OUTRO 2
19 groovesOGES17S1+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Magical Shadows of a Tragic Past?

120 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 Magical Shadows of a Tragic Past hard to play on drums?

47 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?

242 bars, about 7:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Magical Shadows of a Tragic Past?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 46, 47, 66, 67, 87 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED
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