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Megalo Strike Back · Toby Fox

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
9 groovesCIEBS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Megalo Strike Back on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-16, silence through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-45, ride through bars 46-53 and kick and crashes through bars 54-55, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-33, 58-65 and 90-93 -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26                               27
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x-x-x---o---o---x---|x---o---o-----ggx-x-x---o-------|
SD |--------x-----x---------x-------|--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x-x---x---------x---x-----------|x-x---x-------ggx-x-x-----------|
Megalo Strike Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-34 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Megalo Strike Back?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Megalo Strike Back hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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