Electric Relaxation · A Tribe Called Quest

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-26, 28-42 and 44-54, and 1 more place -- 92.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
ELECTRIC RELAXATION · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 2 sections: 91 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-92.

OUTRO
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Electric Relaxation?

98 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 Electric Relaxation hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 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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