Get On The Floor · Michael Jackson

145 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-89 and 106-145 -- 89% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
GET ON THE FLOOR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 3 sections: 143 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-89.

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

Questions

What BPM is Get On The Floor?

125 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 Get On The Floor hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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