Brother Louie · Modern Talking

99 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-28, 37-40 and 49-52, and 3 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BROTHER LOUIE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 18 sections: 81 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-28.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDCEBA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brother Louie?

110 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 Brother Louie hard to play on drums?

47 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?

99 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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