Charmless Man · Blur

99 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 46-52 and 70-76 -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CHARMLESS MAN · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 9, 25, 39, 41, 53 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 13 sections: 64 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-98.

PART E
PART S3
PART G
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIGCS3E+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Charmless Man?

120 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 Charmless Man hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Charmless Man?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 9, 25, 39, 41, 53 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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