Malena · Idoli

178 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-27, 41-44 and 46-50, and 4 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
MALENA · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 51, 52 and 60.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 11 sections: 153 keep time, 4 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-178.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJFHS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Malena?

125 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 Malena hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Malena?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 51, 52 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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