Magnolia · Jj Cale

61 bars, 3:18, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 10-18, and 7 more places -- 56.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
MAGNOLIA · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 34.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 4 sections: 52 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-61.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Magnolia?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Magnolia hard to play on drums?

36 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 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?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 34.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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