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Give It To Me Baby · Rick James

Give It To Me Baby · Rick James
EXERCISE 9 OF 10
Run C1 · Outro 2 (bars 6-122)
114 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 117 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give It To Me Baby on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-50, snare through bars 51-53, hi-hat through bars 54-99, snare through bars 100-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-122.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Give It To Me Baby -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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