Baby Be Mine · Michael Jackson

113 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 27-34 and 48, and 3 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BABY BE MINE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 103 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-113.

PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baby Be Mine?

110 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 Baby Be Mine hard to play on drums?

57 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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