House Party · 01. Nils Landgren Funk Unit

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 101-107 and 109-132 -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
HOUSE PARTY · BAR 101
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 7 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 60-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 66-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 13 sections: 101 keep time, 13 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-132.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBPJS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is House Party?

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 House Party 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in House Party?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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