Ladies Night · Kool & The Gang

183 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 16, and 15 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
LADIES NIGHT · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 43, 83 and 109.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 10 sections: 164 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-183.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIGBF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ladies Night?

110 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 Ladies Night hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Ladies Night?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 43, 83 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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