Off The Wall · Michael Jackson

123 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 50-52, and 7 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
OFF THE WALL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 62, 91, 92, 93, 94 and 95.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 91-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 11 sections: 100 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-122.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJFBLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Off The Wall?

119 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 Off The Wall hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Off The Wall?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 62, 91, 92, 93, 94 and 95.

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