Joy In Repetition · Prince

147 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-85 and 92-140 -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
JOY IN REPETITION · BAR 71
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 7 sections: 140 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-140.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesDACBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Joy In Repetition?

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 Joy In Repetition hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 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.

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