My Baby Just Cares For Me · Nina Simone

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-18, 21-50 and 53-97, and 1 more place -- 92.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 3 sections: 100 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-51.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Baby Just Cares For Me?

120 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 My Baby Just Cares For Me hard to play on drums?

46 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 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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