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Mr. Doctor Man · Palaye Royale

Mr. Doctor Man · Palaye Royale
EXERCISE 15 OF 39
Groove G -- Part G
118 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART K, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART K
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIKDPB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Doctor Man on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-13, toms through bars 14-27, snare through bars 28-30, ride through bars 31-44 and snare through bars 45-46, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-44, 63-68 and 72-85, and 2 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Mr. Doctor Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 21, 30, 46, 71, 108 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- I, K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 43-89 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-109 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 119-159 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mr. Doctor Man?

112 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 Mr. Doctor Man hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Mr. Doctor Man?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 21, 30, 46, 71, 108 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED