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Magical Shadows of a Tragic Past · Mutiilation

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove O -- Chorus
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PART G
CHORUS
PART G
BREAK 4
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
19 groovesOGES17S1+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Magical Shadows of a Tragic Past on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
7:11
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-23, silence through bars 24-30, hi-hat through bars 31-48, silence through bars 49-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-60, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Magical Shadows of a Tragic Past -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- O, G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-22 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-47 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part S7 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-68 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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