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Man In The Box · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 5 OF 27
Groove F -- Chorus 2
49 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Man In The Box on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-33, ride through bars 34-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 14-26 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-30 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-101 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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