One Nation Under A Groove · Funkadelic

227 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
7:34
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-10 and 41-45, and 9 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 23 sections: 199 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 202-227.

VERSE
VERSE 4
CHORUS 4
PART E
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACDEIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Nation Under A Groove?

120 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 One Nation Under A Groove hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 7:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in One Nation Under A Groove?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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