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Metal Man · Deny Cardiff

Metal Man · Deny Cardiff
EXERCISE 15 OF 69
Fill at bar 8 (a small one)
74 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART T
PART AF
PART AM
OUTRO
8 groovesHAFQTF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metal Man on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
78/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-58, hi-hat through bars 59-63 and toms through bars 64-70, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 4 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-xx-x-xx-x-|
SD |----x--gg---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Metal Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metal Man?

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 Metal Man hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Metal Man?

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED