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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

122 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

236

LENGTH

7:44

DIFFICULTY

71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, toms through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-132, toms through bars 133-148 and hi-hat through bars 149-236.

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.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
4. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 41-56 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 73-88 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Bars 97-236 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.