Funky President · James Brown

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-68, 70 and 72-84, and 2 more places -- 95.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 102 BPM
FUNKY PRESIDENT · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars: 105 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-105.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Funky President?

102 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 President hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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