Beggin' · Madcon

77 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 11 more places -- 55.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BEGGIN' · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 75.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 4 sections: 68 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-57.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beggin'?

140 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 Beggin' hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Beggin'?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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