Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine · James Brown

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-70 and 72-135 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 106 BPM
GET UP (I FEEL LIKE BEING A) SEX MACHINE · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 3 sections: 134 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-70.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine?

106 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 Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine hard to play on drums?

56 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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