ABC · Jackson 5

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

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

TEMPO

90 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

71

LENGTH

3:05

DIFFICULTY

58/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |oooooooooooooooo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x-xx-----|

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

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Through the Verse and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 17-24 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Verse 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Bars 42-52 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.