Manhattan · Eric Johnson

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-66, 68-70 and 72-74, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
MANHATTAN · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 9, 15, 16, 17, 22 and 29 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 12 sections: 60 keep time, 35 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-78.

PART C
PART C
PART N
PART C
PART W
PART I
PART AJ
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAMCWAJN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Manhattan?

102 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 Manhattan hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Manhattan?

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 9, 15, 16, 17, 22 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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