Mister Magic · Grover Washington Jr

230 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 9:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
9:12
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 13-20 and 24, and 22 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
MISTER MAGIC · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 65, 81, 111, 127, 171 and 4 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 195 · LANDS ON BAR 196

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 18 sections: 196 keep time, 10 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-160.

CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART O
CHORUS 6
PART AC
7 groovesBOCACZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mister Magic?

100 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 Mister Magic hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 9:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Mister Magic?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 65, 81, 111, 127, 171 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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