The beautiful people · Marylin Manson

130 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-42 and 59-74 -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 10 sections: 117 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-42.

CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART C
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The beautiful people?

144 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 The beautiful people hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The beautiful people?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

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