Man In The Box · Alice in Chains

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 30-32 and 50-57, and 4 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
MAN IN THE BOX · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 65, 73, 97 and 1 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 15 sections: 102 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Man In The Box?

105 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 Man In The Box hard to play on drums?

55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Man In The Box?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 65, 73, 97 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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