Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) · Parliament

153 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-20, and 27 more places -- 77.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
GIVE UP THE FUNK (TEAR THE ROOF OFF THE SUCKER) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 41, 45 and 6 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 3 sections: 138 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-153.

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

Questions

What BPM is Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)?

104 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 Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 41, 45 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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