Rock Your Baby · George Mccrae

165 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 6:21 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 25-32 and 37-52, and 8 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
ROCK YOUR BABY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 26 sections: 138 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-52.

VERSE
VERSE 3
VERSE 6
CHORUS 5
PART G
6 groovesBCGAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Your Baby?

104 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 Your Baby hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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