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Man Overboard · blink-182

EXERCISE 6 OF 43
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 22-24)
52 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesDITBN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Man Overboard on drums

132 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, snare through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 57-64 and 97-103 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---------|
Man Overboard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 49, 52, 53, 55, 73 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D, T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Man Overboard?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth 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?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, 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 Overboard?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 49, 52, 53, 55, 73 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED