Let's Groove · Earth, Wind & Fire

178 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulElectronic120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 20-26 and 28-41, and 10 more places -- 79.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
LET'S GROOVE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 18, 42, 74, 82, 84 and 6 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 89-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 3 sections: 163 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-177.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let's Groove?

123 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 Groove hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Let's Groove?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 18, 42, 74, 82, 84 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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