Shut Me Up · Mindless Self Indulgence

121 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 174 BPM
SHUT ME UP · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 7 sections: 101 keep time, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-63.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shut Me Up?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shut Me Up hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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