"...Baby One More Time" by Tenacious D from KFP4 · Jack Black

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 17, and 13 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
"...BABY ONE MORE TIME" BY TENACIOUS D FROM KFP4 · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 4, 16, 25, 36, 46 and 8 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-35.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFHS6BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "...Baby One More Time" by Tenacious D from KFP4?

100 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 One More Time" by Tenacious D from KFP4 hard to play on drums?

42 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 One More Time" by Tenacious D from KFP4?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 4, 16, 25, 36, 46 and 8 more.

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