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Rock With You ( B Tuned) · Micheal Jackson

Rock With You ( B Tuned) · Micheal Jackson
EXERCISE 7 OF 27
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
69 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEKBRCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock With You ( B Tuned) on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 16 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Rock With You ( B Tuned) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 45, 46 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-89 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock With You ( B Tuned)?

115 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 With You ( B Tuned) hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rock With You ( B Tuned)?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 45, 46 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED