Man I Need · Olivia Dean

90 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 28 more places -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MAN I NEED · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 7 sections: 81 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-73.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCAS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Man I Need?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Man I Need hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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