For Everyman · Jackson Browne

142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 6:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 11 and 23, and 11 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 91 BPM
FOR EVERYMAN · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 26, 34 and 24 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time, 30 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-142.

CHORUS
PART B
PART M
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCFHS11B+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For Everyman?

91 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 For Everyman hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 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 For Everyman?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 26, 34 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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