Michael Jackson · Heal the World

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 13-35 and 37-42, and 3 more places -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
MICHAEL JACKSON · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 79, 87 and 106.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 6 sections: 95 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-42.

CHORUS
VERSE
PART J
OUTRO
6 groovesARHJS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Michael Jackson?

80 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 Michael Jackson hard to play on drums?

49 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Michael Jackson?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 79, 87 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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