Birdland
Weather Report · 1977
A fusion anthem for a precise sixteenth-note groove and locking in with the ensemble.
- Artist
- Weather Report
- Year
- 1977
- Genre
- fusion
- Drummer
- Alex Acuna
- Tempo
- 158 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- funk
- Difficulty
- advanced
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
94bpm
Building
126bpm
Target
158bpm
The feel
A funk in 4/4 around 158 BPM. It moves — stay relaxed in the hands so you don't tense up and rush.
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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