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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO

84 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

77

LENGTH

3:38

DIFFICULTY

44/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-11, silence through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25, ride through bars 26-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-49, and 3 more changes after that.

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|

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

It cuts the song into 28 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Bars 10-20 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 26-47 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.