Beautiful · Christina Aguilera

24 bars, 1:25, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

PopFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
24
LENGTH
1:25
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 19-21 and 23-24 -- 91.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BEAUTIFUL · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

24 bars: 24 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beautiful?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Beautiful hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

24 bars, about 1:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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