Three Little Birds · Bob Marley

110 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-7, 10-24 and 26-32, and 11 more places -- 83.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 146 BPM
THREE LITTLE BIRDS · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 4 sections: 108 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-110.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Three Little Birds?

146 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 Three Little Birds hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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