real man · beabadoobee

87 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 12 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
REAL MAN · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 26.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 6 sections: 59 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-87.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1DGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is real man?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 real man hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in real man?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 26.

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