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ManUNkind · Metallica

EXERCISE 20 OF 62
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
189 / 280 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART A
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S
PART V
PART S
PART K
PART S
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGSKS1V+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ManUNkind on drums

280 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 8:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
8:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-37, snare through bars 38-47, hi-hat through bars 48-63 and toms through bars 64-71, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 111-126, 145-161 and 163, and 11 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    111                112
    1.....2.....3..... 1.....2.....3.....
CC |x-----------------|------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------|------------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----|x-----x--x--------|
ManUNkind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 38, 42, 64, 65, 70, 71 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- S, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 64-130 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-39 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-277 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 65-103 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ManUNkind?

122 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 ManUNkind hard to play on drums?

46 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

280 bars, about 8:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 ManUNkind?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 38, 42, 64, 65, 70, 71 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 280 BARS ANALYSED