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Megalovania (1st Section) · Toby Fox

EXERCISE 20 OF 51
Groove L
83 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Megalovania (1st Section) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-39, ride through bars 40-54, hi-hat through bars 55-60 and ride through bars 61-62, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---xx|
BD |x---xx-x-x-xxx--|
Megalovania (1st Section) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 36 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 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-17 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-25 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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