Beat It (Michael Jackson) · Spëcht

142 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 4:05 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
142
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-39 and 41-43, 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 (MICHAEL JACKSON) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 5 sections: 134 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-115.

PART A
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beat It (Michael Jackson)?

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 (Michael Jackson) hard to play on drums?

70 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?

142 bars, about 4:05 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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