Shut Up And Dance With Me · 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.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100
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 -- 28.4% 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 WITH ME · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 48, 57, 58, 85, 86 and 2 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 85-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 103-104 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 81 keep time, 8 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-102.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHDBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shut Up And Dance With Me?

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 With Me hard to play on drums?

52 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?

104 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 With Me?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 48, 57, 58, 85, 86 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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