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Magnolia · Deafheaven

EXERCISE 8 OF 37
Fill at bar 48 (a small one)
27 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS7FCOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Magnolia on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-34 and ride through bars 35-36, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
RD |x-g-g-x-g-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Magnolia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 22-33 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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