Billie Jean - HIStory Tour (Gothenburg 1997) · Michael Jackson

248 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 8:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and floor tom.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
8:42
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-37, 39 and 43-53, and 16 more places -- 90.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BILLIE JEAN - HISTORY TOUR (GOTHENBURG 1997) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 41, 42, 81 and 82.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 2 sections: 243 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-248.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Billie Jean - HIStory Tour (Gothenburg 1997)?

114 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 - HIStory Tour (Gothenburg 1997) hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 8:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Billie Jean - HIStory Tour (Gothenburg 1997)?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 41, 42, 81 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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