Jive Talkin' · Bee Gees

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 21-26 and 28-34, and 8 more places -- 60.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
JIVE TALKIN' · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 51.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 94 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-50.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBFHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jive Talkin'?

105 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 Jive Talkin' hard to play on drums?

53 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Jive Talkin'?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 51.

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