Funk drum beat at 100 BPM
Press Play for a funk drum beat at 100 BPM. It starts with Funky Drummer, and you can switch to Cissy Strut Pocket, Superstition Pocket, Funky Syncopation and Afrobeat Pulse. One beat lasts 600 ms.
Playing over a funk drum beat at 100 BPM
100 BPM is a comfortable middle tempo for funk. Use it to play whole songs or long improvisations without stopping; the fills every few bars tell you where each phrase ends.
What plays at 100 BPM
Funky Drummer is written at 99 BPM, so 100 BPM is its home tempo. In 4/4 at this tempo a quarter note lasts 600 ms, an eighth note 300 ms and a sixteenth 150 ms, which is the spacing of the hi-hat you hear. Switch to Cissy Strut Pocket, Superstition Pocket, Funky Syncopation and Afrobeat Pulse on the page and the tempo stays at 100 BPM.
How long is a phrase at 100 BPM?
Knowing how long a phrase lasts helps you plan a song, a solo or a recording take. The drums play a fill at the end of every four or eight bars, so these are the lengths you will hear.
| Length | Time |
|---|---|
| One bar of 4/4 | 2.4 seconds |
| Four-bar phrase | 9.6 seconds |
| Eight-bar section | 19 seconds |
| Three-minute song | about 75 bars |
How a funk drum beat works
Funk lives on the sixteenth notes. The kick lands on off-beats, quiet ghost notes fill the snare line, and the hi-hat keeps a steady sixteenth grid. Everything else in the band plugs into that grid, so the job is to feel all four sixteenths of every beat.
How to play along
Guitarists: keep your strumming hand moving in sixteenths the whole time and only let the strings speak on some of them. Bassists: lock to the kick and leave rests; the space is part of the groove. Start slower than you think and speed up only when the muted strokes are even.