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Maniac · Conan Gray

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Verse
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CHORUS
VERSE
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
4 groovesBAS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maniac on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-65, silence through bars 66-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-29 and 32-37, and 4 more places -- 71.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 10-66 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Maniac?

108 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 Maniac hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED