Get Down Tonight · KC And The Sunshine Band

148 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 18-23 and 25-28, and 21 more places -- 68.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
GET DOWN TONIGHT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 136.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 4 sections: 140 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-104.

PART A
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
3 groovesDHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get Down Tonight?

112 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 Tonight hard to play on drums?

51 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Get Down Tonight?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 136.

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