Rock Me Baby · B.B. King

50 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-46 -- 93.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ROCK ME BABY · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 2 sections: 46 keep time, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-46.

OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Me Baby?

100 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 Rock Me Baby hard to play on drums?

30 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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