Digital Man · Rush

198 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 227 BPM, 4:57 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
227 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 7 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 227 BPM
DIGITAL MAN · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 18, 56, 60 and 6 more.

LOOP · 227 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 227 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 227 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 227 BPM
BARS 62-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 14 sections: 105 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 62 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-103.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesS14MCJAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Digital Man?

227 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Digital Man hard to play on drums?

51 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Digital Man?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 18, 56, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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