I'll Be There · The Jackson 5

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13-18 and 31-37, and 4 more places -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
I'LL BE THERE · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 45, 46, 50 and 2 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 72 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-91.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDHCS4S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I'll Be There?

90 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 I'll Be There hard to play on drums?

37 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 I'll Be There?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 45, 46, 50 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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