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Magnificat · Benediction

EXERCISE 16 OF 71
2-bar fill at bar 55
106 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Magnificat on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-56, snare through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80, ride through bars 81-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-88, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-49 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-181 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-102 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-73 -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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