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Megalovania. · Toby Fox

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDLS6S1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Megalovania. on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:52 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:52
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 9-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 19 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    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. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 24, 31, 32, 39, 53 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Megalovania.?

120 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. 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?

146 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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.?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 24, 31, 32, 39, 53 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED