Can Can · Bad Manners

101 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 2:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-21, 23-33 and 35-41, and 2 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 149 BPM
CAN CAN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 2, 67 and 68.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 7 sections: 90 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-41.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesCDFHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Can Can?

149 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 Can Can hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Can Can?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 2, 67 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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