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Funny Man · Dingus

EXERCISE 4 OF 61
Groove M -- Part M (a two-bar phrase)
40 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Funny Man on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
9:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-12, silence through bars 13-19, hi-hat through bars 20-67, ride through bars 68-81 and toms through bars 82-83, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Funny Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-33 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-43 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-84 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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