← SONGS

Shut Up And Dance · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 4 OF 46
Groove C -- Part C
84 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBCLJG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shut Up And Dance on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-56, ride through bars 57-70, snare through bars 71-77, ride through bars 78-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-50, 60 and 96, and 3 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Shut Up And Dance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 56, 59, 77, 85, 93, 97 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- B, J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-79 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Shut Up And Dance?

132 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 Shut Up And Dance hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Shut Up And Dance?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 56, 59, 77, 85, 93, 97 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED