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I'll Be There · The Jackson 5

I'll Be There · The Jackson 5
EXERCISE 14 OF 25
Join Part H to Chorus 2 (bars 27-29)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDHCS4S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'll Be There on drums

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.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-54, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
I'll Be There -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D, H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-19 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-51 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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