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Play That Funky Music · Wild Cherry

Play That Funky Music · Wild Cherry
EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 65 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCLFES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Play That Funky Music on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-136.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 32 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 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 25 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-109 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Play That Funky Music?

110 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 hard to play on drums?

56 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED