Reconsider Baby · Elvis Presley

130 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 109 BPM, 3:35 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 12 and 19-32, and 8 more places -- 68% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 109 BPM
RECONSIDER BABY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 57, 58, 127, 128, 129 and 130.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 127-130 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 9 sections: 112 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-56.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reconsider Baby?

109 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Reconsider Baby hard to play on drums?

36 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Reconsider Baby?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 57, 58, 127, 128, 129 and 130.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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