Magnolia · Deafheaven

106 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 183 BPM, 4:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 2 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 183 BPM
MAGNOLIA · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 10 more.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 16 are fills and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS7FCOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Magnolia?

183 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Magnolia hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Magnolia?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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