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Magma · Gojira

EXERCISE 1 OF 77
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART M
PART J
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART B
PART Z
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesABXJH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Magma on drums

208 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-104, ride through bars 105-108, snare through bars 109-128, silence through bars 129-132 and hi-hat through bars 133-208.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-4 and 9, and 51 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 12, 24, 51, 52, 60, 62 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- A, H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-42 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-53 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Magma?

133 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 Magma hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Magma?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 12, 24, 51, 52, 60, 62 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED