Fresh · Kool & The Gang

128 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-128 -- 99.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 117 BPM
FRESH · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars: 128 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-128.

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

Questions

What BPM is Fresh?

117 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 Fresh hard to play on drums?

43 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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