funkist · snow fairy

40 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 1:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
1:29
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 25-31 and 33-34, and 1 more place -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
FUNKIST · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 32, 35 and 1 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 4 sections: 24 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is funkist?

106 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 funkist hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 1:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in funkist?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 32, 35 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 40 BARS ANALYSED
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