Diggin' On James Brown · Tower Of Power

91 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-91 -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DIGGIN' ON JAMES BROWN · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-91.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADIHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diggin' On James Brown?

125 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 Diggin' On James Brown hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Diggin' On James Brown?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

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