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Neo-Funk · Anthony Brancati

Neo-Funk · Anthony Brancati
EXERCISE 1 OF 101
Groove BS -- Part BS
0 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART BS
CHORUS
PART W
PART AJ
PART M
PART BH
PART BN
PART BS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesCAJBSMAJ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 18
LINK · 8
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neo-Funk on drums

207 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 6:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
6:54
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-39, ride through bars 40-50, toms through bars 51-57, hi-hat through bars 58-102 and snare through bars 103-104, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 146-151 and 155-160 -- 5.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    156
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-------x---------------------------x---|
Neo-Funk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 8, 20, 28 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 84 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 -- BS, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BN -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Neo-Funk?

118 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 Neo-Funk hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 6:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Neo-Funk?

16 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 8, 20, 28 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED