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Man In The Mirror · Michael Jackson

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART S1
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCS1DS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Man In The Mirror on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-20, snare through bars 21-29, hi-hat through bars 30-98 and silence through bars 99-102, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-72, 74-82 and 84-90, and 4 more places -- 69.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-------xx|------x-x-x-----|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
Man In The Mirror -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 91, 105, 117 and 123.

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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 26-41 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 73-106 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Man In The Mirror?

100 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 Mirror hard to play on drums?

46 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mirror?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 91, 105, 117 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED