Magnificat · Benediction

184 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 25-30 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
MAGNIFICAT · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 16, 31, 40, 48, 55, 56 and 33 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 23 sections: 110 keep time, 39 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART V
CHORUS 5
14 groovesEVJBQ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Magnificat?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Magnificat hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Magnificat?

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 16, 31, 40, 48, 55, 56 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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