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Funky Cold Medina · Tone-Lōc

Funky Cold Medina · Tone-Lōc
EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Funky Cold Medina on drums

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

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
30/100

snare through bars 1-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-63 and snare through bars 64-95.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Funky Cold Medina -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-68 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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