Funky Cold Medina · Tone-Lōc

95 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 7 more places -- 78.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FUNKY COLD MEDINA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 64 and 84.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 3 sections: 86 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-55.

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

Questions

What BPM is Funky Cold Medina?

120 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 Cold Medina hard to play on drums?

30 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Funky Cold Medina?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 64 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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