Mahal · Glass Beams

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-26, and 6 more places -- 73.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
MAHAL · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 5 sections: 77 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-84.

CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCAS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mahal?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Mahal hard to play on drums?

60 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, 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.

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