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Hot Stuff · Donna Summer

Hot Stuff · Donna Summer
EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 45 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hot Stuff on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-114.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|x-xxx-xxx-xxx-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Hot Stuff -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 70-90 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-114 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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