Let's Get Retarded · Black Eyed Peas

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 22-29 and 34-39, and 4 more places -- 68.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
LET'S GET RETARDED · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 3 sections: 82 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-92.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let's Get Retarded?

105 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 Let's Get Retarded hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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