Funky Town · Lipps Inc

236 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 7:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
7:44
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 53-76 and 85-100, and 2 more places -- 51.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
FUNKY TOWN · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

236 bars across 10 sections: 225 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 174-236.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Funky Town?

122 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 Town hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 7:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED
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