Think (About It)
Lyn Collins · 1972
Source of the ubiquitous 'Think break,' making it essential for studying breakbeat phrasing.
- Artist
- Lyn Collins
- Year
- 1972
- Genre
- funk
- Drummer
- John "Jabo" Starks
- Tempo
- 118 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- sixteenth-note funk
- Difficulty
- advanced
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
70bpm
Building
94bpm
Target
118bpm
The feel
A sixteenth-note funk in 4/4 around 118 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.
- •Funk lives in the hi-hat and the ghosted snare — tighten those before the backbeat.
- •Advanced: isolate the single hardest bar and loop it slowly before ever playing along.
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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