My Babe · Little Walter

103 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 20-33 and 36-73, and 2 more places -- 91.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
MY BABE · BAR 20
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars: 103 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-103.

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

Questions

What BPM is My Babe?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My Babe hard to play on drums?

51 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, kick and hi-hat foot. 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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