Chicago II · Michael Jackson

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 10-12 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
CHICAGO II · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 88.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time, 1 is a fill and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-39.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCDIGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chicago II?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Chicago II hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Chicago II?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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