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magnetic · illit

EXERCISE 4 OF 28
Join Chorus to Break (bars 16-18)
52 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play magnetic on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, silence through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-62, kick and crashes through bars 63-70 and snare through bars 71-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x-----x-----|
magnetic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-22 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 25-39 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-65 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 5 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-100 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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