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Move On Up · Curtis Mayfield

Move On Up · Curtis Mayfield
EXERCISE 2 OF 9
Groove C -- Outro
97 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Move On Up on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bar 1 and ride through bars 2-121.

The beat

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.

    75
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-|
SD |-g--x--g-g--x--g|
T1 |------x---------|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Move On Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED