Manhattan · Kings Of Leon

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 34-41 and 74-77, and 4 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 109 BPM
MANHATTAN · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 57, 61, 73, 85 and 89.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 9 sections: 78 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDBIL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Manhattan?

109 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?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 57, 61, 73, 85 and 89.

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