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"Funky Bitch" · Blues Traveler

"Funky Bitch" · Blues Traveler
EXERCISE 32 OF 33
Fill at bar 102 (a small one)
110 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Funky Bitch" on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-45, ride through bars 46-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-110.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
"Funky Bitch" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-73 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-80 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes. Open above.
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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