Master Blaster (Jammin') · Stevie Wonder

159 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-6, 8-14 and 16-22, and 23 more places -- 81.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 131 BPM
MASTER BLASTER (JAMMIN') · BARS 4-5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars: 159 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-159.

OUTRO
1 grooveDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Master Blaster (Jammin')?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Master Blaster (Jammin') hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 6 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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.

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