Everyday People · Sly & The Family Stone

65 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-39 and 41-64 -- 95.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
EVERYDAY PEOPLE · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars: 64 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-64.

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

Questions

What BPM is Everyday People?

115 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 Everyday People hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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