Mr. Big Stuff · Jean Knight

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 16-35 and 37-64 -- 93.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
MR. BIG STUFF · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars: 64 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-64.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Big Stuff?

92 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 Stuff hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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