Nuthin' but a G Thang
Dr. Dre · 1992
Laid-back G-funk beat, a study in swung-16th programmed hip-hop feel.
- Artist
- Dr. Dre
- Year
- 1992
- Genre
- hip-hop
- Drummer
- programmed
- Tempo
- 96 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- G-funk
- Difficulty
- beginner
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
58bpm
Building
76bpm
Target
96bpm
The feel
A G-funk in 4/4 around 96 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Keep the 16th-note hand dead even; let the accents — not volume spikes — do the talking.
- •Sit just behind the beat and let it breathe; don't chase the click forward.
- •Funk lives in the hi-hat and the ghosted snare — tighten those before the backbeat.
How to learn it
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