I Got The..... · Labi Siffre

144 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 8:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
8:00
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 7 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
I GOT THE..... · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 27.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 100 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-75.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 4
BREAK 2
8 groovesCS12RQE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Got The.....?

86 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I Got The..... hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 8:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I Got The.....?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 27.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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