magnetic · illit

100 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-16, 25 and 27, and 10 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
MAGNETIC · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 51 and 72.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 2 are fills and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-92.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART L
CHORUS 5
BREAK 6
11 groovesBFLHS15+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is magnetic?

131 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 magnetic hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in magnetic?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 51 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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