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.

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 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-|

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

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. Open above.
7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
8. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.