Singles You Up · Jordan Davis

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-30, 39-54 and 59-74 -- 65.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SINGLES YOU UP · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 38.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 6 sections: 64 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-74.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesCAS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Singles You Up?

100 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 Singles You Up hard to play on drums?

48 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 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 Singles You Up?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 38.

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