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Baby Can I Hold You (A) · Tracy Chapman

EXERCISE 8 OF 18
Groove D
47 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Baby Can I Hold You (A) on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 2-60.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14, and 2 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Baby Can I Hold You (A) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 31 and 43.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Baby Can I Hold You (A)?

76 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 Can I Hold You (A) hard to play on drums?

41 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Baby Can I Hold You (A)?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 31 and 43.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED