Working Man · Rush

156 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 7:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
7:03
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 17-24 and 26-27, and 5 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 79 BPM
WORKING MAN · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 10, 13, 16, 25, 28, 30 and 55 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 16 sections: 54 keep time, 61 are fills, 8 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-116.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART T
PART AV
CHORUS 3
PART BE
PART S12
14 groovesDTBENS12+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Working Man?

79 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 Working Man hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 7:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Working Man?

12 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 10, 13, 16, 25, 28, 30 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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