Maneater · Daryl Hall & John Oates

196 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-152 and 154-195 -- 82.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 178 BPM
MANEATER · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 3 sections: 191 keep time, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-117.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maneater?

178 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 Maneater hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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