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Mister Magic · Grover Washington Jr

Mister Magic · Grover Washington Jr
EXERCISE 7 OF 46
Join Part C to Chorus 2 (bars 11-13)
167 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
PART C
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mister Magic on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
9:12
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-89, snare through bars 90-91, hi-hat through bars 92-224, snare through bars 225-228 and hi-hat through bars 229-230.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x--x--|
Mister Magic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 65, 81, 111, 127, 171 and 4 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 -- B, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-51 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 13-66 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 81-100 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 97-202 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 170-196 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 6 and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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