The Lady In My Life · Michael Jackson

80 bars, 4:23, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 34 and 39, and 3 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 73 BPM
THE LADY IN MY LIFE · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 6 sections: 71 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-80.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
5 groovesLHACJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lady In My Life?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Lady In My Life hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in The Lady In My Life?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

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