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Beat it (E Standard Tuning) · Michael Jackson

EXERCISE 13 OF 17
Run D2 · Outro (bars 39-122)
140 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 84 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesDEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beat it (E Standard Tuning) on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-148.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Beat it (E Standard Tuning) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED