Family Man · Hall And Oates

111 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-111 -- 85.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FAMILY MAN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 2 sections: 110 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-111.

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

Questions

What BPM is Family Man?

130 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 Family Man hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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