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All About That Bass · Meghan Trainor

All About That Bass · Meghan Trainor
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 12 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S3
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All About That Bass on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-41, silence through bars 42-48, toms through bars 49-73, kick and crashes through bars 74-80 and toms through bars 81-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 33 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------g---g-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-------------x-|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
All About That Bass -- 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 11 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 39-62 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is All About That Bass?

134 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 All About That Bass hard to play on drums?

35 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED