Beat it (E Standard Tuning) · Michael Jackson

148 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 39-45 and 47-49, and 13 more places -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BEAT IT (E STANDARD TUNING) · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 6 sections: 134 keep time, 1 is a fill and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-121.

PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesDEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beat it (E Standard Tuning)?

139 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 Beat it (E Standard Tuning) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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