Human · Rag'n'Bone Man

53 bars, 2:50, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-19, 23-24 and 28-29, and 3 more places -- 59.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
HUMAN · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 49.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 5 sections: 48 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-26.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBDS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Human?

75 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 Human hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Human?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 49.

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