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Manchild · Sabrina Carpenter

EXERCISE 13 OF 22
Groove M
93 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesAHQS7FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Manchild on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, toms through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-96, silence through bars 97-102, toms through bars 103-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 14-16 and 18-19, and 9 more places -- 67% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-96 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 95-103 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Manchild?

123 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 Manchild hard to play on drums?

55 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Manchild?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED