Great Big White World · Marilyn Manson

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 21-28 and 43-54, and 1 more place -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
GREAT BIG WHITE WORLD · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 42, 62, 71, 72, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-58.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
5 groovesBCS1S3S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Great Big White World?

83 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Great Big White World hard to play on drums?

60 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Great Big White World?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 42, 62, 71, 72, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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