Southern Man · Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

258 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 12:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
12:53
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 45 and 49, and 10 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SOUTHERN MAN · BAR 55
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 6, 8, 18, 20, 27, 28 and 49 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

258 bars across 17 sections: 174 keep time, 55 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 173-195.

PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART AI
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART BL
PART AI
10 groovesRCAIXL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Southern Man?

80 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 Southern Man hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 12:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 35 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Southern Man?

18 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 6, 8, 18, 20, 27, 28 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED
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