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Rabies Mankind · SHITWORKERS

EXERCISE 5 OF 52
Groove AH -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART Q
PART Q
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO
BREAK 3
10 groovesS11IAHQV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rabies Mankind on drums

84 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 210 BPM, 2:13 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-29, toms through bars 30-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-29 and 34-40 -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-----------x-----------|
BD |--x-xxxxx-x-xxxxx-x-x-xx|
Rabies Mankind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-46 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rabies Mankind?

210 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Rabies Mankind hard to play on drums?

63 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rabies Mankind?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED