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Manipulator · Insect Warfare
EXERCISE 13 OF 38
Join Part C to Part D (bars 8-10)
45 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART D
PART C
PART D
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesUDKOC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Manipulator on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
95/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, snare through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-36, ride through bars 37-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-54, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-54 -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Manipulator -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- U -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 6-22 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part D and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Manipulator?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Manipulator hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Manipulator?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED