Ms. Jackson · Outkast

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-40, 42-44 and 46-48, and 6 more places -- 84.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
MS. JACKSON · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 101 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-96.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
4 groovesBAS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ms. Jackson?

95 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 Ms. Jackson hard to play on drums?

37 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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