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You Rock My World · Michael Jackson

EXERCISE 14 OF 27
Run G2 · Chorus 2 (bars 58-73)
94 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Rock My World on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, toms through bars 42-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-121.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xgo-x--xggxgx--x|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-------x-------|
You Rock My World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-46 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-82 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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