Use Me
Bill Withers · 1972
Deep clav-driven pocket and a model of tasteful groove.
- Artist
- Bill Withers
- Year
- 1972
- Genre
- funk
- Drummer
- James Gadson
- Tempo
- 98 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- 16th funk
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
58bpm
Building
78bpm
Target
98bpm
The feel
A 16th funk in 4/4 around 98 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.
- •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.
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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