Red Hot Mama · The Funkadelic

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 25-40 and 49-80 -- 79% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
RED HOT MAMA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 81.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 5 sections: 76 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-80.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Hot Mama?

100 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 Red Hot Mama hard to play on drums?

50 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 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 Red Hot Mama?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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