Maha Kali · Dissection

307 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 172 BPM, 5:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
307
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 12-13 and 16, and 20 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 172 BPM
MAHA KALI · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 14, 17, 19, 22, 30, 50 and 20 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

307 bars across 22 sections: 202 keep time, 26 are fills and 48 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 246-269.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART AB
PART J
PART S
6 groovesCJSABU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maha Kali?

172 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Maha Kali hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

307 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Maha Kali?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 14, 17, 19, 22, 30, 50 and 20 more.

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