Get Ready
The Temptations · 1966
Teaches the driving four-on-the-floor Motown feel and precise up-tempo backbeat.
- Artist
- The Temptations
- Year
- 1966
- Genre
- soul
- Drummer
- Benny Benjamin
- Tempo
- 140 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- up-tempo Motown backbeat
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
84bpm
Building
112bpm
Target
140bpm
The feel
A up-tempo Motown backbeat in 4/4 around 140 BPM. It moves — stay relaxed in the hands so you don't tense up and rush.
What to watch
- •Keep the quarter-note kick relentless and even — it's the engine.
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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