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Undertale: MEGALOVANIA || Metal Cover by RichaadEB · Richaadeb

EXERCISE 5 OF 59
Fill at bar 28 (a small one)
31 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART O
PART S
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART AG
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCEAGRS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Undertale: MEGALOVANIA || Metal Cover by RichaadEB on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 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
95
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-22, snare through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 19-21 and 31-32, and 5 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x---x---x---x-----|
Undertale: MEGALOVANIA || Metal Cover by RichaadEB -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 14, 16, 17, 18, 26, 28 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-19 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-37 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Undertale: MEGALOVANIA || Metal Cover by RichaadEB?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Undertale: MEGALOVANIA || Metal Cover by RichaadEB hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Undertale: MEGALOVANIA || Metal Cover by RichaadEB?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 14, 16, 17, 18, 26, 28 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED