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Manhattan · Kings Of Leon

EXERCISE 28 OF 34
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 72-74)
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Manhattan on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-73 and ride through bars 74-93.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----------|
T1 |-----------x-x--|
BD |x-------x-------|
Manhattan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-58 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-74 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED