Aint We Funkin · Brothers Johnson

160 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 29-35 and 37-40, and 16 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
AINT WE FUNKIN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 26, 44, 65 and 2 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 12 sections: 136 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-145.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEPCJL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aint We Funkin?

115 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 Aint We Funkin hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Aint We Funkin?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 26, 44, 65 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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