Mr. Big · Free

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 63-98 and 101-102 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
MR. BIG · BARS 71-72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 62, 109, 110, 111, 112 and 114.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 109-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 4 sections: 101 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-44.

CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBMJUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Big?

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 Mr. Big 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mr. Big?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 62, 109, 110, 111, 112 and 114.

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