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Get Down Tonight · KC And The Sunshine Band

Get Down Tonight · KC And The Sunshine Band
EXERCISE 19 OF 20
Run D2 · Outro (bars 115-148)
148 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
3 groovesDHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Get Down Tonight on drums

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

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Get Down Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED