WLM - Play That Funky Music · Ross Carnes

40 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
1:27
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-23 and 25-27, and 1 more place -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WLM - PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 40
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 3 sections: 35 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-27.

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

Questions

What BPM is WLM - Play That Funky Music?

110 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 WLM - Play That Funky Music hard to play on drums?

44 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 1:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 WLM - Play That Funky Music?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

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