Give It To Me Baby · Rick James

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-29, 31-33 and 35-41, and 10 more places -- 83.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GIVE IT TO ME BABY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 53, 100 and 101.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 3 sections: 112 keep time, 4 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-99.

OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give It To Me Baby?

120 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 Give It To Me Baby hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Give It To Me Baby?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 53, 100 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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