Can I Kick It ? · A Tribe Called Quest

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 19 and 21-27, and 9 more places -- 69.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
CAN I KICK IT ? · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 102
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 12 sections: 74 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-44.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCS6S1S10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Can I Kick It ??

97 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 Can I Kick It ? hard to play on drums?

58 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Can I Kick It ??

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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