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Modern Man · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Modern Man on drums

75 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 1:47 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, 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
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 2-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-16, and 6 more places -- 86.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x--x-x--|
Modern Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 29, 38 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Modern Man?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Modern Man 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, 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 Modern Man?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 29, 38 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED