Rock With You · Michael Jackson

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.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

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.

LOOP · 115 BPM
ROCK WITH YOU · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 84 keep time and 11 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-78.

CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEKBRCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock With You?

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 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?

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
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