Heal The World Bass · Michael Jackson

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 13-46 and 49-66, and 2 more places -- 62.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HEAL THE WORLD BASS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 47, 95 and 98.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 4 sections: 98 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-46.

CHORUS
OUTRO
VERSE
4 groovesBIHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heal The World Bass?

80 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 Heal The World Bass hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Heal The World Bass?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 47, 95 and 98.

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