ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Makka on drums

125 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 180 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 125
LENGTH: 2:47
DIFFICULTY: 77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, snare through bars 28-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-15 and 52-55 -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12                               13
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|------------------------x-------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o---------------|
SD |--------X-------X-------X-------|--------X-------X-------X-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-------x-----x---|x---x-x---x---x-----x-----------|

Makka -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part P and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 28-36 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part Z and Part AD -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 8 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Makka?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Makka hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Makka?

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED