Maha Kali (EP Version) · Dissection

313 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 5:31 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
313
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 67-73, and 14 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MAHA KALI (EP VERSION) · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 18, 74, 106, 122, 130 and 7 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 218 · LANDS ON BAR 219

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

313 bars across 15 sections: 238 keep time, 13 are fills and 42 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 196-216.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART H
CHORUS 5
PART M
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHPMJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maha Kali (EP Version)?

170 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 (EP Version) hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

313 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Maha Kali (EP Version)?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 18, 74, 106, 122, 130 and 7 more.

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