A Man. A Plan. A Canal. Panama · TFOT

87 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 28-30 and 33, and 12 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
A MAN. A PLAN. A CANAL. PANAMA · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 15, 38, 50, 70, 74 and 1 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 62 keep time, 7 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-69.

PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
5 groovesJCS2S6QFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Man. A Plan. A Canal. Panama?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Man. A Plan. A Canal. Panama hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Man. A Plan. A Canal. Panama?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 15, 38, 50, 70, 74 and 1 more.

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