Celebration · Kool & The Gang

151 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 13 more places -- 88.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CELEBRATION · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 63, 79 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars: 143 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-150.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Celebration?

120 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 Celebration hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 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 Celebration?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 63, 79 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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