Get Down On It · Kool & The Gang

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-16, 18-36 and 38-74, and 3 more places -- 93.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 109 BPM
GET DOWN ON IT · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars: 98 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-99.

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

Questions

What BPM is Get Down On It?

109 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 Get Down On It hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Get Down On It?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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