Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough · Michael Jackson

182 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 6:07 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 10 more places -- 91.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 119 BPM
DON'T STOP 'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 2 sections: 175 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-182.

VERSE
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough?

119 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 Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 6:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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