Get Up Stand Up · Bob Marley

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-5 and 10, and 7 more places -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
GET UP STAND UP · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 4 sections: 55 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-34.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get Up Stand Up?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Get Up Stand Up hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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