Just A Little Bit · Etta James

61 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 18-20 and 43-44, and 1 more place -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
JUST A LITTLE BIT · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 25, 26, 39 and 3 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 7 sections: 40 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-61.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEHDMNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just A Little Bit?

116 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 Just A Little Bit hard to play on drums?

46 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?

61 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Just A Little Bit?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 25, 26, 39 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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