You Rock My World · Michael Jackson

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-41, 58-73 and 82-92, and 1 more place -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
YOU ROCK MY WORLD · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 121
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 10 sections: 105 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
VERSE
5 groovesGBEMLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Rock My World?

96 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 You Rock My World hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in You Rock My World?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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