mailman · Evan Fong

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 10-23 and 34-45 -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
MAILMAN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 61, 62, 63, 64 and 66.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 61-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 7 sections: 57 keep time, 5 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-23.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCIAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is mailman?

90 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 mailman hard to play on drums?

37 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 mailman?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 61, 62, 63, 64 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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