Shut up and Drive - Original · Rihanna

116 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 25 and 27, and 10 more places -- 50.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 133 BPM
SHUT UP AND DRIVE - ORIGINAL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 80.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 13 sections: 100 keep time, 2 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-35.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART A
PART B
PART B
OUTRO
8 groovesCBAS1S10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shut up and Drive - Original?

133 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 Drive - Original hard to play on drums?

47 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Shut up and Drive - Original?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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