Working Class Man · Jimmy Barnes

124 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-46 and 69-124 -- 86.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 139 BPM
WORKING CLASS MAN · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 5 sections: 92 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-124.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1DS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Working Class Man?

139 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 Working Class Man hard to play on drums?

47 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?

124 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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