Johnny B Goode · Peter Tosh

118 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 10-16 and 18-96, and 1 more place -- 91.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 146 BPM
JOHNNY B GOODE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 9.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 2 sections: 113 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-118.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Johnny B Goode?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Johnny B Goode hard to play on drums?

31 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Johnny B Goode?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 9.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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