Guitar Man · Bread

65 bars, 3:34, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 15 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 73 BPM
GUITAR MAN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 32, 35, 47, 52, 61 and 3 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 7 sections: 43 keep time, 9 are fills, 4 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART A
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBMAS3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Guitar Man?

73 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 Guitar Man hard to play on drums?

48 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Guitar Man?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 32, 35, 47, 52, 61 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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