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Mágico · joe vasconcellos

Mágico · joe vasconcellos
EXERCISE 3 OF 21
Groove D
63 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCJEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mágico on drums

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.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
88/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-80.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-51 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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