Billie Jean (Guitar) · Michael Jackson

142 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-41, 43-81 and 83-101, and 6 more places -- 94.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BILLIE JEAN (GUITAR) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars: 142 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-142.

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

Questions

What BPM is Billie Jean (Guitar)?

116 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 Billie Jean (Guitar) hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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