Move On Up · Curtis Mayfield

121 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-48, 51-72 and 75-96, and 1 more place -- 80.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 139 BPM
MOVE ON UP · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 2 sections: 119 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-121.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Move On Up?

139 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 Move On Up hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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