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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

227

LENGTH

7:34

DIFFICULTY

52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-195, snare through bars 196-200 and hi-hat through bars 201-227.

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

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

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A, C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
2. Through Part D and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Bars 47-56 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Verse 4 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 91-149 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 146-174 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
8. Bars 194-201 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.