Kung Fu Fighting · Carl Douglas

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-28 and 30-36, and 5 more places -- 73.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 103 BPM
KUNG FU FIGHTING · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 85.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 5 sections: 66 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-52.

CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesES2JS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kung Fu Fighting?

103 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 Kung Fu Fighting hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Kung Fu Fighting?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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