Baby One More Time · Anatidae

68 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 1:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:33
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-12 and 27-29, and 5 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BABY ONE MORE TIME · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 4 sections: 59 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-62.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baby One More Time?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Baby One More Time hard to play on drums?

51 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Baby One More Time?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.

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