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Maha Kali · Dissection

EXERCISE 25 OF 56
Join Chorus 3 to Part J (bars 92-94)
256 / 307 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maha Kali on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
307
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-18, ride through bars 19-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-50, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----x-x---|
Maha Kali -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-173 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 90-112 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 105-123 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 307 BARS ANALYSED