Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson · Drums : Jonathan "Sugarfoot" Moffett

151 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 18 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SMOOTH CRIMINAL - MICHAEL JACKSON · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 11 sections: 128 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-55.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART W
PART E
PART C
OUTRO
10 groovesFWEDB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson?

120 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 Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson hard to play on drums?

58 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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