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

Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson · Drums : Jonathan "Sugarfoot" Moffett
EXERCISE 5 OF 45
Groove E -- Part E
60 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-145 and snare through bars 146-151.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-xxx-x-x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x----x|
Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED