Be My Baby Tonight · John Michael Montgomery

105 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / Folk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-21 and 23, and 21 more places -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BE MY BABY TONIGHT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 71, 72, 73, 83, 96, 97 and 4 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 71-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 103-105 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 84 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-31.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART C
PART L
PART C
6 groovesBCLHG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be My Baby Tonight?

156 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 Be My Baby Tonight hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Be My Baby Tonight?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 71, 72, 73, 83, 96, 97 and 4 more.

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