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

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "...Baby One More Time" by Tenacious D from KFP4 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
42/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-55, silence through bars 56-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-79.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
"...Baby One More Time" by Tenacious D from KFP4 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-22 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-29 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-79 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED