Hot Stuff · Donna Summer

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-24, 42-56 and 74-80, and 1 more place -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HOT STUFF · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 41 and 73.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 8 sections: 101 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-89.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
VERSE
OUTRO
4 groovesFCBLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hot Stuff?

120 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 Hot Stuff hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hot Stuff?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 41 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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