Maneater- Original Song · Nelly Furtado

146 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-72, 74-95 and 105-146 -- 99.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
MANEATER- ORIGINAL SONG · BAR 7
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 3 sections: 137 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-95.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maneater- Original Song?

132 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 Maneater- Original Song hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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