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Number 1 · Manowar

EXERCISE 14 OF 15
Run C1 · Outro (bars 11-100)
89 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 90 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Number 1 on drums

100 bars, 5:18, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-52, toms through bars 53-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 22 more places -- 67.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Number 1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 41, 45, 53, 54 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Number 1?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Number 1 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Number 1?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 41, 45, 53, 54 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED