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Give In To Me · Michael Jackson

EXERCISE 4 OF 7
Groove C -- Outro 2
116 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give In To Me on drums

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

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-120.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----------------------|
HH |x-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-x|
SD |------x-----------x----x|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Give In To Me -- 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 6 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 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED