SHUT UP & LISTEN 2 DIS · Ross Carnes & Rhys Kerr

59 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 12-14, and 5 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
SHUT UP & LISTEN 2 DIS · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 57.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 5 sections: 48 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SHUT UP & LISTEN 2 DIS?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 & LISTEN 2 DIS hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. 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 & LISTEN 2 DIS?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 57.

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