Mannish Boy · Muddy Waters

60 bars, 3:40, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, snare and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-59 -- 96.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 65 BPM
MANNISH BOY · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 2 sections: 51 keep time, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-59.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mannish Boy?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mannish Boy hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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