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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

104 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

165

LENGTH

6:21

DIFFICULTY

64/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
3. Through Part A and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
4. Bars 29-40 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Bars 59-65 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through the Verse 4 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
8. Bars 72-148 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.