ABC · Jackson 5

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-11 and 24-36 -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ABC · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 9 sections: 60 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-71.

VERSE
PART D
PART G
VERSE 2
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCPKDE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ABC?

90 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 ABC hard to play on drums?

58 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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