Maniac · Carpenter Brut, Yann Ligner

188 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Electronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-21 and 29-31, and 12 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 166 BPM
MANIAC · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 48, 66, 82 and 16 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 109-110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 16 sections: 143 keep time, 22 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 163-178.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesBDRAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maniac?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Maniac hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Maniac?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 48, 66, 82 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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