Ain't Nobody
Rufus and Chaka Khan · 1983
A staple for blending live drums with drum-machine precision and syncopated fills.
- Artist
- Rufus and Chaka Khan
- Year
- 1983
- Genre
- R&B
- Drummer
- John "JR" Robinson
- Tempo
- 102 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- eighties funk-R&B
- Difficulty
- advanced
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
62bpm
Building
82bpm
Target
102bpm
The feel
A eighties funk-R&B in 4/4 around 102 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •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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