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Reconsider Baby · Elvis Presley

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 87 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reconsider Baby on drums

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

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
36/100

hi-hat through bars 3-130.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Reconsider Baby -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-68 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-94 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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