We Are Family · Sister Sledge

162 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-17, 20-25 and 27-33, and 12 more places -- 87.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
WE ARE FAMILY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 18, 34, 66 and 162.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 2 sections: 156 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-161.

OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Are Family?

116 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 We Are Family 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:35 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, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in We Are Family?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 18, 34, 66 and 162.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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