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For Everyman · Jackson Browne

EXERCISE 20 OF 57
Groove L
80 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For Everyman on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-44, ride through bars 45-47, hi-hat through bars 48-82, ride through bars 83-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-93, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----------x--------------x--|
For Everyman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, AJ -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-41 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-51 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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