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Kung Fu Fighting · Carl Douglas

Kung Fu Fighting · Carl Douglas
EXERCISE 4 OF 16
Groove G
68 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesES2JS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kung Fu Fighting on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-13 and hi-hat through bars 14-85.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Kung Fu Fighting -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse 2 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
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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