Megalovania (1st Section) · Toby Fox

151 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 15 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 121 BPM
MEGALOVANIA (1ST SECTION) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 36 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 21 sections: 70 keep time, 42 are fills, 8 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-46.

CHORUS
PART F
PART R
CHORUS 4
PART S12
CHORUS 5
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDFRS12N+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Megalovania (1st Section)?

121 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 Megalovania (1st Section) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Megalovania (1st Section)?

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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