Man of Constant Sorrow · Charm City Devils

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10-11 and 15-16, and 3 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 25, 30, 31, 43, 48, 50 and 8 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 10 sections: 48 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-41.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART E
PART I
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLBFEI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Man of Constant Sorrow?

84 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 of Constant Sorrow hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 of Constant Sorrow?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 25, 30, 31, 43, 48, 50 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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