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Megalomaniac · Incubus

EXERCISE 7 OF 46
Groove E
93 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART D
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCGDBI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Megalomaniac on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-140 and snare through bars 141-148.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 26 and 28, and 20 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Megalomaniac -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 124 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-40 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-99 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-113 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Megalomaniac?

140 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 Megalomaniac hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Megalomaniac?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 124 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED