{"id":44163,"date":"2023-03-17T09:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=44163"},"modified":"2023-03-17T09:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:24:28","slug":"sugarfoot-billie-jean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/sugarfoot-billie-jean\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson&#8217;s Drummer Plays &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gFbZiIjFmz8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Jonathan &#8220;Sugarfoot&#8221; Moffett was Michael Jackson&#8217;s live drummer for 30 years, supporting the King of Pop during some of his biggest tours (including the HIStory World Tour) from the late &#8217;70s until Michael&#8217;s death in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Jackson&#8217;s hit &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221; is one of the most iconic songs of all time. In this drum cam footage, you&#8217;ll see exactly how Sugarfoot played the hit MJ song during his tenure, complete with tasty hi-hat details and that legendary pocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It ends with a unique <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/drum-solo-jonathan-sugarfoot-moffett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drum solo<\/a> that features three differently-tuned bass drums played with a single foot, and you&#8217;ll see why Jonathan Moffett earned his nickname. He also goes into his trademark behind-the-head cymbal grabs!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-play-billie-jean-by-michael-jackson-on-the-drums\">How to play &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221; by Michael Jackson on the drums<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>While Sugarfoot was Michael Jackson&#8217;s beloved longtime touring drummer, it was Ndugu Chancler who appears on the original &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221; album recording. You can also hear Ndugu on &#8220;P.Y.T.&#8221; and &#8220;Baby Be Mine&#8221; from the <em>Thriller<\/em> album, and &#8220;I Just Can&#8217;t Stop Loving You&#8221; and &#8220;Bad&#8221; from the <em>Bad<\/em> album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d1923uyy6spedc.cloudfront.net\/drumeo-songs-2020-june\/pdfs\/Michael%20Jackson%20-%20Billie%20Jean.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here for the &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221; sheet music<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song is 117 BPM and while it takes a pro drummer to nail the feel of this song, it&#8217;s also one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/the-5-easiest-songs-to-learn-on-drums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">easiest songs to learn on drums<\/a>, as a beginner drummer could get through from start to finish by playing that famous steady beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free 7-day Drumeo trial<\/a>, you can get access to sheet music and practice tools for almost 50 Michael Jackson hits <em>and <\/em>5000 other songs?<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"join blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\">Join Drumeo free!<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Michael Jackson&#8217;s drummer, Jonathan &#8220;Sugarfoot&#8221; Moffett, play the iconic hit &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221; and break into a killer triple bass drum solo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":44195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4021,4016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performances-and-playalongs","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44163"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44289,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44163\/revisions\/44289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}