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Manta Ray · Pixies

EXERCISE 16 OF 25
Join Chorus 2 to Part B (bars 35-37)
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Manta Ray on drums

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

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-81 and snare through bars 82-86.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-32 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-70 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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