Give In To Me · Michael Jackson

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronicUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-116 -- 95.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 87 BPM
GIVE IN TO ME · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 2 sections: 119 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-116.

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

Questions

What BPM is Give In To Me?

87 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 Give In To Me hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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