Mágico · joe vasconcellos

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-8 and 10-19, and 2 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
MÁGICO · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 43, 63, 71, 79 and 80.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 79-80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 4 sections: 71 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-39.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCJEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mágico?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Mágico hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mágico?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 43, 63, 71, 79 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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