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Man Made of Meat · Viagra Boys

EXERCISE 11 OF 20
Groove D
99 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Man Made of Meat on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
49/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 28-43 and 45-52, and 2 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Man Made of Meat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 44, 96 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-31 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 44-89 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Man Made of Meat?

144 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 Made of Meat hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Man Made of Meat?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 44, 96 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED