Redbone · Childish Gambino

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-24 and 27-31, and 4 more places -- 86.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
REDBONE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars: 107 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-107.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Redbone?

80 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 Redbone hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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