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Diggin' On James Brown · Tower Of Power

EXERCISE 11 OF 21
Groove G
74 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART D, CHORUS 4
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diggin' On James Brown on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
46/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Diggin' On James Brown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED