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Play That Funky Music (White Boy) · Wild Cherry

EXERCISE 30 OF 33
Groove O
127 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Play That Funky Music (White Boy) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-132.

The beat

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.

    12               13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x---o-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x------gxx--|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x-----x-|
HF |----------------|x---------------|
Play That Funky Music (White Boy) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-37 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-103 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-101 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 101-113 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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