Baby, Please Don't Go · Aerosmith

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 16-17 and 21-23, and 2 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BABY, PLEASE DON'T GO · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 15, 70 and 82.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 10 sections: 66 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-37.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART P
OUTRO
10 groovesDIBPV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baby, Please Don't Go?

103 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, Please Don't Go hard to play on drums?

45 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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, Please Don't Go?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 15, 70 and 82.

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