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mailman · Evan Fong

mailman · Evan Fong
EXERCISE 14 OF 18
4-bar fill at bar 61
60 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCIAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play mailman on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-56, snare through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-72.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
mailman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-46 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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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