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We Are Family · Sister Sledge

We Are Family · Sister Sledge
EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove D -- Outro
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OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are Family on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 3-162.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
We Are Family -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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