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Magnolia Blvd ai · Butcher babies

Magnolia Blvd ai · Butcher babies
EXERCISE 24 OF 56
Groove P
123 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
13 groovesOEJGB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Magnolia Blvd ai on drums

190 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, snare through bars 29-46, toms through bars 47-48, snare through bars 49-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-80, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 27 and 35, and 8 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Magnolia Blvd ai -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 36, 63, 64 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-29 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-54 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-110 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-118 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Magnolia Blvd ai?

120 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 Magnolia Blvd ai 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 6:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Magnolia Blvd ai?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 36, 63, 64 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED