ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Digital Man on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 227 BPM
TIME: 6/4
BARS: 198
LENGTH: 4:57
DIFFICULTY: 51/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, ride through bars 39-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-72, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39                       40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |------------------------|------------x-----------|
RD |x---x-x-----x---x-x-----|x---x-x-----------x-----|
SD |------x---x-------x---x-|------------x-----x---x-|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|x-----x---x-----x-------|

Digital Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- M, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part F and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part J and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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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