Manta Ray · Pixies

86 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 32-36 and 47-51, and 2 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
MANTA RAY · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 24, 27 and 28.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 12 sections: 64 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Manta Ray?

132 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 Manta Ray hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Manta Ray?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 24, 27 and 28.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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