Shake Your Tailfeathers - Bass Only · The Blues Brothers

74 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 1:50 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-28, 31-48 and 51-68, and 1 more place -- 88.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 162 BPM
SHAKE YOUR TAILFEATHERS - BASS ONLY · BAR 21
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 2 sections: 62 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-74.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shake Your Tailfeathers - Bass Only?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shake Your Tailfeathers - Bass Only hard to play on drums?

46 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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