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

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-153.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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