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The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) · Fleetwood Mac

EXERCISE 23 OF 28
Fill at bar 74 (a small one)
101 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART S2
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGS7S2F+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
30/100

silence through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-21, hi-hat through bars 22-28, toms through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-38 and toms through bars 39-47, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 17-20 and 29-30, and 3 more places -- 59.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
T2 |----x-x-----x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 39, 40, 62, 63, 66 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-31 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-71 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)?

100 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 The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 39, 40, 62, 63, 66 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED