Say Say Say (feat. Michael Jackson) · Paul McCartney

115 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 30-37 and 46-52, and 2 more places -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SAY SAY SAY (FEAT. MICHAEL JACKSON) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 11 sections: 99 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-115.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say Say Say (feat. Michael Jackson)?

116 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 Say Say Say (feat. Michael Jackson) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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