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Maha Kali (EP Version) · Dissection

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART J
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maha Kali (EP Version) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
313
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    3            4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
RD |--x---x---x-|x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |------x-----|------x-----|
BD |x---x-------|x---x---x-x-|
Maha Kali (EP Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-71 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 74-118 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 115-188 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 5 and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 216-254 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 313 BARS ANALYSED