"Funky Bitch" · Blues Traveler

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 22 and 25-27, and 10 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
"FUNKY BITCH" · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 23, 34, 38, 40, 45, 46 and 12 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-22.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Funky Bitch"?

108 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 "Funky Bitch" hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in "Funky Bitch"?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 23, 34, 38, 40, 45, 46 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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