We Are The World · Michael Jackson

88 bars, 5:52, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-64 and 66-88 -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
WE ARE THE WORLD · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 8 sections: 79 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-88.

PART B
PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesDCBS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Are The World?

60 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 We Are The World hard to play on drums?

35 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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