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Shut Up! · Simple Plan

EXERCISE 29 OF 49
Join Chorus 3 to Part S9 (bars 73-75)
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CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART S9
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCIRXF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shut Up! on drums

111 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-34, snare through bars 35-45, hi-hat through bars 46-66, snare through bars 67-75 and silence through bars 76-78, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 27, and 17 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 18, 42, 46, 50, 57 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-34 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-22 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-47 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-85 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shut Up!?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shut Up! hard to play on drums?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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!?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 18, 42, 46, 50, 57 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED