Get Lucky · Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers)

124 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulElectronic90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 16 more places -- 48.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
GET LUCKY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 4 sections: 113 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-59.

CHORUS
PART S2
VERSE
OUTRO
3 groovesAFS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get Lucky?

116 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 Lucky hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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