Stayin' Alive
Bee Gees · 1977
a staple for the four-on-the-floor disco pulse and playing to a loop-tight tempo
- Artist
- Bee Gees
- Year
- 1977
- Genre
- disco
- Drummer
- Dennis Bryon (looped)
- Tempo
- 104 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- disco four-on-the-floor from a single looped bar
- Difficulty
- beginner
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
62bpm
Building
84bpm
Target
104bpm
The feel
A disco four-on-the-floor from a single looped bar in 4/4 around 104 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Keep the quarter-note kick relentless and even — it's the engine.
How to learn it
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