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Just A Little Bit · Etta James

Just A Little Bit · Etta James
EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove E -- Outro 2
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just A Little Bit on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-61.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Just A Little Bit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
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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