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Human Nature TAB · Michael Jackson

EXERCISE 14 OF 30
Groove H
78 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART A
PART E
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEACJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 4
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Human Nature TAB on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 16, and 18 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |-------x---xx-x-|
BD |x--------------x|
Human Nature TAB -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 23, 79, 80 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 18-68 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-84 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Human Nature TAB?

93 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 Human Nature TAB hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Human Nature TAB?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 23, 79, 80 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED