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Funky Monks · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 12 OF 29
Groove J -- Part J
98 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEJNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Funky Monks on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-66, ride through bars 67-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 34-48 and 75-89 -- 41.5% 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 |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x--x-x|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Funky Monks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 33, 49, 64, 65 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-78 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Funky Monks?

88 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 Monks hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Funky Monks?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 33, 49, 64, 65 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED