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Who is it? · Michael Jackson

EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Run C1 · Outro (bars 10-48)
157 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Who is it? on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 6:33 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-170.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-104 and 106-169 -- 73.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Who is it? -- 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 8 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Who is it??

104 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 Who is it? hard to play on drums?

42 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED