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Megalovania · Undertale

EXERCISE 14 OF 24
Groove G
118 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 5
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S7
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHS7ES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Megalovania on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-73, silence through bars 74-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-147.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 13 more places -- 56.1% 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 |ooo-ooo-ooo-o-o-|
SD |-gx--gx--gx-g-x-|
BD |x---x---x--x-x--|
Megalovania -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 56 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 41-73 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Megalovania?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 56 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED