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Man Overboard · American football

EXERCISE 2 OF 66
Groove CK -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
7 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART Z
PART AI
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART BU
OUTRO
16 groovesJCKS1PAI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Man Overboard on drums

176 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-21, snare through bars 22-23, toms through bars 24-33, snare through bars 34-39, toms through bars 40-59 and snare through bars 60-63, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 70 and 78, and 4 more places -- 4.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1...........2...........3...........
SD |----x---x---------------x-----------|
T2 |------------x-----------------------|
FT |x---------------x-------------------|
BD |x-------------------x-------x-------|
Man Overboard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 64, 65, 66, 70, 71, 72 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CK -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- CW -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-106 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Man Overboard?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Man Overboard hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 23 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 Overboard?

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 64, 65, 66, 70, 71, 72 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED