Pull Up to the Bumper
Grace Jones · 1981
Compass Point dub-funk pocket blending reggae feel with disco-funk drive.
- Artist
- Grace Jones
- Year
- 1981
- Genre
- reggae funk
- Drummer
- Sly Dunbar
- Tempo
- 110 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- dub funk
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
66bpm
Building
88bpm
Target
110bpm
The feel
A dub funk in 4/4 around 110 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •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.
- •Keep the quarter-note kick relentless and even — it's the engine.
How to learn it
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