A Child Is Born · Thad Jones

71 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 1:47 of playing on crash, ride and kick.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-65 and 67-70 -- 97.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
A CHILD IS BORN · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars: 69 keep time and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-65.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Child Is Born?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 A Child Is Born hard to play on drums?

36 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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