James Brown drum tabs
10 charts, 95-144 BPM. Each one is read from a real score: play it along to the record, slow it down, or take the practice course under it.
MOST PLAYED
- CHARTS
- 10
- TEMPO
- 95-144 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 1,322
- WITH A COURSE
- 7 of 10
- USUAL KEY
- D minor
EVERY JAMES BROWN CHART
- Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine106 BPM · 135 BARS
- I Got You I Feel Good141 BPM · 95 BARS · BEGINNER
- Cold Sweat112 BPM · 208 BARS
- Living In America114 BPM · 169 BARS
- The Boss98 BPM · 78 BARS
- I got you (I feel good)144 BPM · 96 BARS
- Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise)95 BPM · 71 BARS · BEGINNER
- Sex Machine108 BPM · 138 BARS
- Funky Drummer96 BPM · 227 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Funky President102 BPM · 105 BARS
LEARNING JAMES BROWN ON DRUMS
10 James Brown drum parts are transcribed here, 1,322 bars of music in total, filed under funk, r&b, soul and blaxploitation. Every one of them is a chart read from a real score rather than a tab somebody typed out: the notes are where the score put them, the tempo is the record’s own, and the page plays the recording underneath while you read.
Nothing here asks you to play it at full speed on the first pass. Take any chart down to half tempo, loop the four bars that will not come clean, and bring it back up. 7 of these 10 songs also have a practice course under them: the part broken into the few things actually different about it, one at a time, ending with you playing the whole song against the record.
A good place to start is "Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise)" at 95 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise)" at 71 bars, the shortest. Sheet music, tab, MIDI and MusicXML download from every chart if you would rather read it away from the screen.
QUESTIONS
How many James Brown drum tabs are there?
10 James Brown drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 7 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are James Brown songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 95 to 144 BPM. The slowest is "Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise)" at 95 BPM, and the shortest is "Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise)" at 71 bars, which makes either a reasonable place to start. Every chart also has a simplified version with the hi-hat pulled back and the fills written as eighths on the snare.
What key are most James Brown songs in?
Most often D minor, E major and C major. The catalogue files them under funk, r&b, soul and blaxploitation.