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Malena · Idoli
EXERCISE 20 OF 29
Groove I -- Part I
169 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJFHS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Malena on drums

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

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-90 and ride through bars 91-95, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Malena -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 119-126 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 126-178 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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