The Boss · James Brown

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-25, 30 and 38-43, and 4 more places -- 63.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
THE BOSS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 6 sections: 70 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-27.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Boss?

98 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 The Boss hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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