MILLION DOLLAR BABY (Bass) · Tommy Richman

42 bars, 2:26, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 5 more places -- 72.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 69 BPM
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (BASS) · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 41.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 4 sections: 27 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-28.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is MILLION DOLLAR BABY (Bass)?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is MILLION DOLLAR BABY (Bass) hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in MILLION DOLLAR BABY (Bass)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 42 BARS ANALYSED
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