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Manhattan · Eric Johnson

EXERCISE 24 OF 72
Join Part N to Part C (bars 26-28)
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0 / 72 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART C
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Manhattan on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-6, ride through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, ride through bars 15-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-33, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |----------xx----|
HH |----o-------o---|
Manhattan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AJ, L -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-58 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-39 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part W -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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