The Man · Aloe Blacc

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 16-18 and 21-23, and 16 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
THE MAN · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 32, 33, 34, 47, 48 and 5 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-92.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDS1GS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Man?

88 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 Man hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Man?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 32, 33, 34, 47, 48 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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