Bennie And The Jets · Elton John

85 bars, 5:09, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12 and 14-17, and 18 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BENNIE AND THE JETS · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 38.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 3 sections: 79 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-85.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bennie And The Jets?

66 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 Bennie And The Jets hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 7 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bennie And The Jets?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 38.

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