Shut Up and Dance · Walk The Moon

104 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 49-51, and 7 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SHUT UP AND DANCE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 30, 48, 52, 57, 58 and 7 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-21.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHBEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shut Up and Dance?

128 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?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 13 times: bars 26, 30, 48, 52, 57, 58 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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