Play That Funky Music (White Boy) · Wild Cherry

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-13, 16-17 and 20-21, and 16 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC (WHITE BOY) · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 28, 35, 36, 40, 60 and 9 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 13 sections: 99 keep time, 15 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-92.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECMGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Play That Funky Music (White Boy)?

108 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 Play That Funky Music (White Boy) hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Play That Funky Music (White Boy)?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 28, 35, 36, 40, 60 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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