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

EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove B -- Verse
0 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 160 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
VERSE
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough on drums

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

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
91/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-182.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xgggxgggxgggxggg|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--xx--xx---x-x-|
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED