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Working Class Man · Jimmy Barnes

Working Class Man · Jimmy Barnes
EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 8 PASSED · 83 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1DS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Working Class Man on drums

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

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-59, silence through bars 60-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-124.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-g-x-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Working Class Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED