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Guitar Man · Bread

Guitar Man · Bread
EXERCISE 20 OF 23
4-bar fill at bar 61
53 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Guitar Man on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, silence through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, silence through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-65.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-48 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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