Funny Man · Dingus

158 bars, 9:43, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
9:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 28-30, and 10 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 65 BPM
FUNNY MAN · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 7, 11, 19, 35, 39 and 38 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 16 sections: 86 keep time, 44 are fills, 8 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-123.

PART S3
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART AF
CHORUS 4
10 groovesGMITS3+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Funny Man?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Funny Man hard to play on drums?

54 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 9:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Funny Man?

16 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 7, 11, 19, 35, 39 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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