The Rockafeller Skank
Fatboy Slim · 1998
Sample-driven big-beat break, a fun study in chopped funk-drum energy.
- Artist
- Fatboy Slim
- Year
- 1998
- Genre
- big beat
- Drummer
- sampled
- Tempo
- 153 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- big beat breakbeat
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
92bpm
Building
122bpm
Target
153bpm
The feel
A big beat breakbeat in 4/4 around 153 BPM. It moves — stay relaxed in the hands so you don't tense up and rush.
What to watch
- •Funk lives in the hi-hat and the ghosted snare — tighten those before the backbeat.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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Learn it
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