Cissy Strut · Meters

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 17-24 and 33-36, and 2 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CISSY STRUT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 9 sections: 53 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-66.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cissy Strut?

90 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 Cissy Strut hard to play on drums?

64 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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