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Maniac · Carpenter Brut, Yann Ligner

Maniac · Carpenter Brut, Yann Ligner
EXERCISE 15 OF 35
Run B3 · Chorus 3 (bars 57-91)
163 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesBDRAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maniac on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-119, snare through bars 120-124 and hi-hat through bars 125-188.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Maniac -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-60 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-109 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 116-150 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 147-183 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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