Joy To The World · Three Dog Night

90 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-90 -- 96.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
JOY TO THE WORLD · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 3 sections: 84 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-90.

OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Joy To The World?

130 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 Joy To The World hard to play on drums?

47 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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